Programme of Talks
For all enquiries including membership, please ring Joy Blake on 01628 523896
Tuesday 28th Sept 2010 at 8pm in Liston Hall, Marlow
Julian Richards
‘The Changing Face of Death’
On this, his 4th visit to MAS, archaeologist and broadcaster Julian Richards will examine the changing ways in which our ancestors chose to dispose of their dead. He will show how meaning and beliefs can be deduced from excavated remains and how science allows us to reconstruct past lives from ancient bones as he demonstrated in 'Meet the Ancestors'.
Tickets £7.50 (£5 for members) on sale from 16th August at Marlow Tourist Information Centre, 55a High St (now behind Marlow Jewellers) or by post from Joy Blake.
Enquiries: 01628 523896 (info on 01628 524584).
Thursday 21st October
Garden Archaeology – techniques and approaches
BRIAN DIX
All Saints’ Church Hall, Marlow at 8pm.
Entrance £3.50, members £2.50 Free refreshments
A specialist in garden archaeology for over 20 years, Brian has led excavations at major English sites including Hampton Court Palace, Chiswick House, Kensington Palace & Kenilworth Castle, also working locally at Cliveden and at Ascott Park (between Stadhampton and Chalgrove). He has discovered historic avenues and earthworks of a former house there dating to 1662, with potentially an earlier house on the site.
Thursday 18th November
Buckinghamshire 410-1066 AD – the story so far
MIKE FARLEY
All Saints’ Church Hall, Marlow at 8pm.
Entrance £3.50, members £2.50 Free refreshments
This talk will fascinate everyone with an interest in our local history. Mike Farley was formerly Buckinghamshire County Archaeologist and is Chair of the Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society
The 600 years following the formal end of Romans rule was once thought to be the province only of historians. However, archaeological fieldwork over the last thirty years has completely transformed our understanding of Anglo-Saxon Society, particularly of the early part of the period. This talk will describe some of the important discoveries that have been made in Buckinghamshire.
The recently published 'Illustrated History of Early Buckinghamshire' covers this period and all other periods to c1500 for the whole of the historic county.