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Join us on 16 December to celebrate the end of the year with our Annual Christmas Miscellany.
The meeting will begin with Society business and will be followed by our Christmas Miscellany of papers. Each paper will last 20-25minutes.
In March 1879, the Times pondered whether ‘it be not contrary to all probability that there can be a church within a church’. The newspaper was reporting on the Fitzalan Chapel case, where possession of the east end of Arundel parish church was disputed between the duke of Norfolk, the premier English peer and Catholic, and the Anglican vicar. While it was not unusual for some continental churches to be shared between confessions, the juxtaposition of Anglican and Catholic space was less common in England. This paper will reconsider this fractious dispute in the context of nineteenth-century church restoration, legal rights and (re-)establishing the architectural integrity of places of worship.
The Beyond Notability project has commenced research in the Society of Antiquaries archive with a view to examining, analysing and presenting women’s work in archaeology, history and heritage in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Society’s archive presents a unique opportunity to gain unparalleled insights into the shape and structure of archaeological and historical enquiry in Britain. But, in order to begin, we must ask: what exactly is the Society’s archive? What stories can it reveal? This paper will outline some of the initial findings as the team works with the SAL’s archivist to explore these questions.
In September of 2021, an early Saxon spearhead (late 6th to 7th Century) was discovered in the garden of my home during construction of an extension to my house in Wilton, Salisbury. In the middle 2000’s my neighbour informed me that he had found two spearheads whilst building his garage in 1962. I showed them to my (now former) colleagues at Wessex Archaeology, who confirmed that they were 6th century. Subsequently Wessex excavated sites north of West Street Wilton and revealed a contemporary settlement. Both settlement and the spearheads were published by Wessex in WAM Vol 105 (2012) pp 117-144. When my neighbour moved approximately 8 years ago, I persuaded him to allow me to donate the spears to Salisbury Museum, where they now reside. The finding of the third spearhead during the present works strongly suggests the presence of an early Saxon cemetery.
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