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Cambridge Antiquarian Society - Monthly Talk
'Decorations of the Highest Class': Insights from the Cowtan & Sons' Wallpaper Archive, 1824-1938, at the V&A' by Wendy Andrews
Monday 3rd February 2020 at 6pm
LG17, Faculty of Law, West Road, Sidgwick Site, University of Cambridge, CB3 9DZ
There is no charge for visitors or guests at lectures. New members are warmly welcomed.
https://www.camantsoc.org/event/3rd-february-2020/
Fane Road Archaeology Group - Monthly Talk
'From Neolithic to Saxon: Evolution of a North Cambridgeshire Landscape' by Tony Walsh (Headland Archaeology)
Monday 3rd February 2020 at 7pm
The Parkway Sports & Social Club, Maskew Avenue, Peterborough, PE1 2AS
The A14 improvement project triggered one of the most extensive ever archaeological excavations. MOLA Headland Infrastructure employed some 250 archaeologists to dig more than 40 separate excavation areas spanning 350 hectares, uncovering new information about how the landscape was used over 6,000 years, and about the origins of the villages and towns along the route. Prehistoric henge monuments, barrows and cremation cemeteries. Iron Age farms. A Roman supply depot and multiple kilns. Saxon settlements including timber buildings. The list of finds is huge. With the investigation phase completed, post excavation analysis is proceeding on multiple fronts. This talk will provide an update on the what this unique project can tell us about the evolution of the north Cambridgeshire landscape from Neolithic to Saxon times.
All welcome (Members: Free; Non-members: £5).
https://peterborougharchaeology.org/event/from-neolithic-to-saxon-evolution-of-a-north-cambridgeshire-landscape/
Cambridge Archaeology Field Group - Monthly Talk
'Excavations of an 18th Century Farmhouse in Wimpole, Cambs' by Mike Coles (CAFG Fieldwork Coordinator)
Wednesday 5th February 2020 at 7:30pm
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing site, Cambridge - Parking is available on site from Tennis Court Road.
This will be a report on the results of the Group's excavations of walls discovered in a service trench, which turned out to be an 18th century house with a medieval predecessor.
All welcome (CAFG invite contributions of £1 from non-members)
http://www.cafg.net/item.aspx?id=497
St Neots Local History Society - Monthly talk
'St Neots - Famous for Who and What?' by Sue Jarrett
Friday 7th February 2020 at 7:30pm
Eynesbury Junior School, Montagu St, Eynesbury, Saint Neots PE19 2TD
All welcome (Members: Free; Non-members: £3.00)
http://stneotslhs.org.uk/#/2020-programme/4594727738
Fen Edge Archaeology Group - Monthly Talk
'Medieval northern journeys: From Arctic and mountain hunting grounds to Eastern England and beyond’ by James Barrett (McDonald Institute)
Thursday 13th February 2020 at 7:30pm
Tony Cooper Suite, Cottenham Village College, High St, Cottenham, Cambridge, CB24 8UA
All welcome. Admission: Members £2; Non-members pay £3.
https://feagblog.wordpress.com/events-for-2020/
Histon and Impington Archaeology Group - Monthly Talk
'Bronze Age Settlement in East Anglia' by Nick Gilmour (OA East)
Monday 17th February 2020 at 7:30pm
Histon Baptist Church, 2 Poplar Rd, Histon, Cambridge CB24 9LN
Open to all. Members free and visitors £3, accompanied children free. Refreshments available.
https://hiarchaeology.wordpress.com/hiag-talks-programme-2019-2020/
FenArch - Monthly Talk
'The Monuments of Easter Island' by Prof Colin Richards (University of the Highlands and Islands)
Wednesday 26th February 2020 at 7:30pm
Mendi's Restaurant, 21 Old Market Place, Wisbech PE13 1NB
Professor Colin Richards will be travelling down from Orkney to speak to us about the monuments of Easter Island (Rapa Nui). Colin is one of the UK's leading experts on the Neolithic having carried out work in Orkney since the 1980s and also on Durrington Walls near Stonehenge. In more recent years he has spent many summers in the South Pacific to help with heritage and archaeological work.
Admission: All welcome (members free, non members £3), but booking is essential at info@fenarch.org.uk or text full name and number of seats to: 07765 172450
https://www.fenarch.org.uk/events/
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Cambridge Antiquarian Society - Monthly Talk
'Kingdom, Civitas and County: the evolution of territorial identities in Eastern England in the Iron Age, Roman and Early Medieval periods' by Prof Stephen Rippon (University of Exeter)
Monday 2nd March 2020 at 6pm
LG17, Faculty of Law, West Road, Sidgwick Site, University of Cambridge, CB3 9DZ
There is no charge for visitors or guests at lectures. New members are warmly welcomed.
https://www.camantsoc.org/event/3rd-february-2020/
Fane Road Archaeology Group - Monthly Talk
'Warboys - An Important Iron Age Settlement' by Steve Graham (Oxford Archaeology East)
Monday 2nd March 2020 at 7pm
The Parkway Sports & Social Club, Maskew Avenue, Peterborough, PE1 2AS
A 7 month project by Oxford Archaeology East has revealed continuous occupation from the Iron Age to late Roman and beyond. The earliest finds include eight roundhouses, some of which date back to about 100BC. Evidence of Roman rural industry included a 4.6m corn dryer and kilns. There were also Saxon pottery and beads indicating further evolution of the settlement before it gave way to agriculture.
All welcome (Members: Free; Non-members: £5).
https://peterborougharchaeology.org/event/warboys-an-important-iron-age-settlement/
Cambridge Archaeology Field Group - Monthly Talk
'Research on Archaeology in Photography' by Gwil Owen (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research)
Wednesday 4th March 2020 at 7:30pm
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing site, Cambridge - Parking is available on site from Tennis Court Road.
All welcome (CAFG invite contributions of £1 from non-members)
http://www.cafg.net/item.aspx?id=497
Fen Edge Archaeology Group - Monthly Talk
'Conington: The excavation of a Mercian king’s enclosure’ by Richard Mortimer (FEAG Honorary President)
Wednesday 4th March 2020 at 7:30pm
Tony Cooper Suite, Cottenham Village College, High St, Cottenham, Cambridge, CB24 8U
Conington, excavated in advance of the A14 upgrade, is the first time an Early/Middle Anglo-Saxon ‘Kingston’ site has been excavated. Placed on the boundary between two early Middle Anglian territories, the site represents a border post on the main road into East Anglia from Mercia, a point of control during the 7th/8th century Mercian hegemony. Richard Mortimer FSA MCIfA, works as a consulting archaeologist but oversaw the excavation at Conington for Oxford Archaeology and MoLAHeadland archaeology in 2017. The post-excavation works are ongoing.
All welcome. Admission: Members free; Non-members pay £3.
https://feagblog.wordpress.com/events-for-2020/
St Neots Local History Society - Monthly talk
'Love and Toil' by Grace Richards
Friday 6th March 2020 at 7:30pm
Eynesbury Junior School, Montagu St, Eynesbury, Saint Neots PE19 2TD
All welcome (Members: Free; Non-members: £3.00)
http://stneotslhs.org.uk/#/2020-programme/4594727738
Cambridge Antiquarian Society - Spring Conference
'Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire in Early Photography and Films'
Saturday 7th March 2020 between 10am and 4pm
LG17, Faculty of Law, West Road, Sidgwick Site, University of Cambridge, CB3 9DZ
All welcome. CAS members £10, non-members £15. No booking required. Pay cash on arrival.
Programme available to download from: https://www.camantsoc.org/conferences/
Histon and Impington Archaeology Group - Monthly Talk
'The Black Death: and later outbreaks of the plague in Cambridgeshire' by Craig Cessford (Cambridge Archaeological Unit)
Monday 23rd March 2020 at 7:30pm
Histon Baptist Church, 2 Poplar Rd, Histon, Cambridge CB24 9LN
Open to all. Members free and visitors £3, accompanied children free. Refreshments available.
https://hiarchaeology.wordpress.com/hiag-talks-programme-2019-2020/
FenArch - Monthly Talk
'Shining light on an old treasure: the Iron Age hoards from Snettisham, Norfolk' by Jody Joy (Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)
Wednesday 25th March 2020 at 7:30pm
Mendi's Restaurant, 21 Old Market Place, Wisbech PE13 1NB
Over the past 60 years, astounding discoveries of precious metal objects, including torcs, bracelets and finger rings, have been made at Ken Hill, Snettisham, Norfolk. In total, 14 separate groups of objects, or hoards, dating to the second and first centuries BC have been discovered. Jody Joy is currently coordinating a major research project including a comprehensive scientific analysis of the objects and a reassessment of the site. He will discuss the results of the project, specifically the discovery of sophisticated metalworking techniques such as surface enrichment and mercury gilding. Dr Jody Joy is Senior Curator of Archaeology at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, responsible for British and European Archaeology. He previously worked at the British Museum, where he was Curator of European Iron Age Collections for eight years. He specializes in the archaeology of northwest Europe during the first millennium BC and his research interests also include the later Bronze Age and early Roman periods.
Admission: All welcome (members free, non members £3), but booking is essential at info@fenarch.org.uk or text full name and number of seats to: 07765 172450
https://www.fenarch.org.uk/events/
Nene Valley Archaeology Trust - Conference
'Science in Archaeology'
Saturday 28th March 2020 between 2pm and 6pm
Cedar Centre, Castor, PE5 7AX
This year's Nene Valle Archaeology Trust conference is on scientific and non-invasive techniques which are revolutionising archaeology. Six eminent speakers will explain how these techniques work - and how they are providing new windows on the past. Full programme available at https://www.nenevalleyarchaeology.co.uk/2020-conference
Tickets £25 (students £15), non-members £15. Price includes afternoon tea - and any funds raised support the work of the NVAT.
Pre-booking essential. Tickets available: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/nenevalleyarchaeologicaltrust/338690
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'St Neots 1949: A Snapshot in Time (Part 2)' by Rodney Todman
Friday 3rd January 2020 at 7:30pm
Eynesbury Junior School, Montagu St, Eynesbury, Saint Neots PE19 2TD
Cambridge Antiquarian Society - Monthly Talk
'Peterborough Abbey in 1116' by Jackie Hall
Monday 6th January 2020 at 6pm
The Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, 25 West Rd, Cambridge, CB3 9EF
In 1116, most of Peterborough Abbey and town burned down. The church was one of the last Anglo-Saxon great churches still standing, two generations after the conquest. Almost eight centuries later, it was rediscovered, along with a substantial assemblage of early stonework, stratigraphically below the Norman church, which was well-recorded but mostly unpublished. Recent work for the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture has rediscovered this assemblage, although only relatively few of the stones are clearly Anglo-Saxon on a stylistic basis. The stones can be used to address matters such as the zoning of burials, 11th-century architecture and the relationship between building and sculpture at Peterborough, while more of the abbey can be seen in a series of unpublished excavations of the 1970’s and 80’s. All in all, it’s possible to establish a more secure idea of one of the most important Benedictine abbeys in 11th-century England, prior to its destruction in 1116.
There is no charge for visitors or guests at lectures. New members are warmly welcomed.
http://www.camantsoc.org/events.html
Fane Road Archaeology Group - Monthly Talk
'Georgian Peterborough' by Stuart Orme
Monday 6th January 2020 at 7pm
The Parkway Sports & Social Club, Maskew Avenue, Peterborough, PE1 2AS
The Georgian period is a neglected part of Peterborough’s past, overshadowed by nearby Stamford’s 18th century streets. This talk reveals how Peterborough was not quite the backwater we might expect and looks at some of our surviving and missing Georgian buildings. Hear some of our stories from this period – how we ended up on a ‘Grand Tour’, attracted one of the country’s best-known artists and why bells saved a local MPs life…
All welcome (Members: Free; Non-members: £5).
https://peterborougharchaeology.org/event/georgian-peterborough/
Cambridge Archaeology Field Group - Monthly Talk
'Ramsey Abbey the Anarchy and the enigma of Burwell Castle" at Wimpole' by Bill Franklin
Wednesday 8th January 2020 at 7:30pm
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing site, Cambridge - Parking is available on site from Tennis Court Road.
All welcome (CAFG invite contributions of £1 from non-members)
http://www.cafg.net/item.aspx?id=497
'Roman to Saxon in East Anglia: the archaeological evidence' by Catherine Hills
Monday 13th January 2020 at 7:30pm
Histon Baptist Church, 2 Poplar Rd, Histon, Cambridge CB24 9LN
Open to all. Members free and visitors £3, accompanied children free. Refreshments available.
https://hiarchaeology.wordpress.com/hiag-talks-programme-2019-2020/
(as of 14th January) This evening’s talk has had to be postponed due to unavoidable circumstances.
We hope to rearrange the talk and will inform you of the details as soon as possible.
Tuesday 14th January 2020 at 7:30pm (doors open 7:15pm)
Willingham Baptist Church,
All welcome. Admission: Members £2; Non-members pay £3.
https://feagblog.wordpress.com/
'Excavation of two historic air crashes' by Anthony Haskins (Oxford Archaeology East)
Wednesday 22nd January 2020 at 7:30pm
Mendi's Restaurant, 21 Old Market Place, Wisbech, PE13 1NBAlthough he usually works on conventional archaeological sites, Anthony has a special interest in researching Aviation Archaeology and his presentation will feature the excavation of Spitfire X4593 flown by Pilot Officer Harold Penketh of 266 Squadron, which dived into Holme Fen on 22nd Nov. 1940. The talk will also briefly cover a second aircraft, a Mustang, P51-D ‘Ellie May’ which crashed at RAF Station Rackheath in Norfolk.
Admission: All welcome (members free, non members £3), but booking is essential at info@fenarch.org.uk or text full name and number of seats to: 07765 172450
http://www.fenarch.org.uk/2018-19-speaker-programme/