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WELSH REGIONAL GROUP LECTURE Working for the Portable Antiquities Scheme in Wales: 20 years, Man and Boy by Mark Lodwick This event will be online only. In 2001 the Portable Antiquities Scheme in Wales was a National Lottery Funded pilot scheme to assess the benefits of a voluntary project tasked with recording archaeological finds made […]
LUNCHTIME LECTURE Creating an Impression: Rebellion, Revolution, Reform by Jasper Jennings I propose to examine six surviving fragments from our visual heritage in detail. I will reveal the histories behind […]
EXETER REGIONAL GROUP LECTURE Investigating boundaries of choice and tradition with potters in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia by Richard Carlton Society of Antiquaries of London and University of Exeter, Department of Archaeology joint seminar. This talk is based on the speaker’s long-term study of pottery-making in the Western and Central Balkans, where a declining number […]
ORDINARY MEETING OF FELLOWS LECTURE A Well-recorded people - The Chelsea Out-pensioners in the Early Eighteenth Century by Andrew Cormack FSA The lecture will be based on the research for my recent doctorate and the title, intriguingly, I hope, contrasts my research with that undertaken by many Fellows of the Society based upon archaeological discoveries […]
ORDINARY MEETING OF FELLOWS EVENING LECTURE Report on the Maritime Archaeological Survey of the Tiber, Italy by Dr Peter B. Campbell The proposed lecture is titled “Maritime Archaeological Survey of the Tiber River” and it present the results of the Society of Antiquaries funded research carried in 2020 by the author. A partnership between the […]
ORDINARY MEETING OF FELLOWS EVENING LECTURE “Anglo-Saxons?” Historiography and the Archaeology of Identity by Dr James Harland In light of recent discussions recognizing with rightly renewed vigour the ethnonationalist, racist and imperialist grand narratives which underly the origins of the discipline of “Anglo-Saxon” Archaeology, this lecture will discuss the findings of my recent monograph and […]
ORDINARY MEETING OF FELLOWS EVENING LECTURE Acquiring skills, travelling to fight: mobility in late Iron Age Dorset by Dr Rebecca Redfern The individual life histories of seven late Iron Age people from Dorset were reconstructed using bioarchaeological, funerary and isotope evidence. The communities who lived in this region of southwest Britain during the 1st century […]
LUNCHTIME LECTURE The Concealment of Sacred Objects during The English Reformation: evidence of piety or protest by Bruce Watson FSA One aspect of the English Reformation (1533-53) was a dramatic change of doctrine from Roman Catholic to the Protestant, which involved an attack on 'traditional religion', statues were forbidden, the celebration of Mass was banned […]
ORDINARY MEETING OF FELLOWS EVENING LECTURE Ruthin Castle, north east Wales. The Medieval Castle, aiming to secure its future. IN CARDIFF by Fiona Gale MBE Ruthin Castle is a Medieval castle built as part of the campaign by Edward I, the English King, to conquer the Welsh in the late 1270s early 1280s. Rather than […]
ORDINARY MEETING OF FELLOWS EVENING LECTURE The Greek City State on a small scale: Hyettos in Boeotia and its territory from 6000 BC to 1900 AD by Professor John Bintliff FSA Since 1978 the Boeotia Project, directed by John Bintliff and Anthony Snodgrass, has been conducting landscape history research in the Central Greek province of Boeotia, […]