Programme of Talks
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Thursday 19th January 2012
Excavations at Goldcliff when the tide goes out
Jennifer Foster
In the Iron Age, peat growth raised the level of the foreshore at Goldcliff, in the Severn Estuary, above the summer tide level, so summer houses were built. Exciting finds there are the Mesolithic footprints of men, women and children; a real window into a moment of the past. Jennifer, who specialises in the study of prehistoric artefacts, has worked on the site over the past 20 years.
Garden Room, Liston Hall, Marlow at
Entrance £3.50, members £2.50 Free refreshments
Thursday 16th February 2012
Kangaroos, Kiwis and Bustards - The archaeology of WW1
Richard Osgood
As Senior Historic Advisor
to Defence Infrastructure Organisation, Richard is co-directing an excavation
on the site of the Battle
of Messines. His talk will examine the
role archaeology can play in a study of the Great War and will follow a
particular unit from their training on windswept Salisbury Plain through to
their baptism of fire at the Battle of Messines in 1917.
Garden Room, Liston Hall, Marlow at Entrance £3.50, members £2.50 Free refreshment
Thursday 29th March 2012
The East Oxford Archaeology Project
Jane
Harrison
This
successful community project has included the excavation of Oxford’s leper hospital and chapel - with
burials - dating back to the C12, onto Civil War discoveries and those from a
C19 farm. Jane, who is Project Officer, will also illustrate how members of the
public can be drawn into various aspects of archaeology, including surveys and
background research, with amazing results.
Garden Room, Liston Hall, Marlow at
Entrance £3.50, members £2.50 Free refreshments
Thursday 19th April 2012
The Medieval City Monasteries
- from their foundation to their dissolution
Val
Pretlove
There were a large number of medieval monasteries around the edges of
the City of London
and Val will trace them and their activities up to the time of their
Dissolution by Henry VIII. We will then explore what happened to them through
the later Tudor period. Val, who is returning to MAS by popular request, is a
Registered City of London Guide and teacher in Adult Education, whose
enthusiasm for old London
is contagious.
Garden Room, Liston Hall, Marlow at
Entrance £3.50, members £2.50 Free refreshments