Symposia, Lectures, Talks & Day Schools
All Lectures open to all – admission free to members; £5 to non-members.
WINTER LECTURES 2008-2009

Truro: 7.30 pm, Truro Baptist Church, Chapel Hill, Truro.

  

Oct 9,  2008 

Geoff Egan, Museum of London Archaeology Service

 The Portable Antiquities Scheme

 

 Oct 30, 2008 

'Recent work on Iron Age defended settlements in soutwest Wales'.

Nov 13, 2008

Members Evening

 

Dec  4th, 2008

Ian Blair, Museum of London Archaeological Service

 The Prittwell Prince, Southend

2009

Jan 8th, 2009

Peter Ryder, formerly West Yorkshire Archaeology Service

 Cross slabs of Northern England

Feb 5th , 2009

Phil Crummy Director Colchester Archaeological Trust

 Stanway burials and the Roman circus at Colchester

Friday March 6th 2009. 

Mike Parker Pearson (Chacewater)

Stonehenge-some recent work

 

Truro: AGM 18th sat April 10.30 am County Hall, Truro, TR1 3AY

2.15 pm AGM Lecture     

Simon Mays, Human Skeletal Biologist, English Heritage

Wharram Percy and Human Bone Analysis

  

Liskeard: 7.30 pm St Martin’s Church Hall, Church Street, Liskeard

October 24th, 2008

Jan 16, 2009         

Steve Thompson, Project Officer - Wessex Archaeology

Time Team’s excavations at Lellizzick

February 20th, 2009
 
 
DAY SCHOOLS
Booking and standby list now CLOSED

The Early Bronze Age

Dr. Josh Pollard

on Saturday, November 22nd at Chacewater Village Hall

This is the next in the series updating archaeology through successive periods and incorporating appropriate Cornish evidence.  It includes an inset by Dr. Andy Jones.

No previous knowledge or attendance at classes is required.  There will be four hours of formal tuition and discussions interspersed with refreshment breaks.

Topics covered will include the emergence of new funery traditions, the spread of burial monuments and metallurgy.

The following books are recommended as preliminary reading:

Barber, M, 2003.  Bronze and the Bronze Age, Tempus.

Harding, A, 2000.  European Societies in the Bronze Age, Cambridge Univ. Press.

Parker, Pearson, M, 1993.  Bronze Age Britain. English Heritage

Woodward, A, 2000. British Barrows, A Matter of Life and Death, Tempus.

Please book by writing to Jenny Beale, 16 Cross Street, Padstow, Cornwall, PL28 8AT, giving a contact address and phone number.

Fee £15 (£18 for non-members).  SAE for receipt otherwise no acknowledgement will be sent.

 

Early Anglo-Saxon England
Derek Gore, University of Exeter
on Saturday March 8th, 2008

 

Northern and Western Britain c AD 400 - 800
Derek Gore, University of Exeter
on Saturday May 10th 2008

The Shire Hall Dining Room, Mount Folly Square, Bodmin
10.30 am – 4.30 pm

Derek Gore’s interests lie especially in post-Roman Europe and he is a leading expert on the Viking Age in Britain. These complementary day schools are planned as part of a series updating archaeology through successive periods. They are intended to provide background to the early medieval period in the British Isles as a whole and will include some comparisons with Cornwall and the Southwest. No previous attendance at classes necessary. On each day there will be approximately four hours of informal tuition and discussions, interspersed with two quarter hour refreshment breaks and an hour lunch break, during which the tutor will be present to continue discussion.

Available to Society members only, at a fee of £15 for each day, bookings can be made for one or both days. Early booking recommended, as places are limited; Please enclose a sae for acknowledgment of booking and a map of Bodmin.

 

Early Anglo-Saxon England
Derek Gore

The day will provide an overview and update on early Anglo-Saxon archaeology. As the Western Roman Empire disintegrated in the fifth century Britain was settled by Germanic barbarians known to us as ‘Anglo-Saxons’. We will look at the evidence from their homelands, their first contacts with Britain and their settlements and cemeteries in England. The development of lordship and kingship and changes in religious ritual will also be discussed.

Suggested preliminary reading:
Hamerow, H. 2002 Early Medieval Settlements. Oxford
Lucy, S. 2000 The Anglo-Saxon Way of Death. Stroud

Northern and Western Britain c AD 400 - 800
Derek Gore
This day will provide an overview and update on the archaeology of Scotland, Ireland, Isle of Man and Wales in the period. Themes will include the development of kingdoms and kingship, Christianity and trade. Fortified and ritual sites, settlements and cemeteries will be examined. Primary material will include stone sculptures, metalwork, and inscriptions

Suggested preliminary reading:
Davies, W. 1982 Wales in the Early Middle Ages. Leicester
Edwards, N. 1999 The Archaeology of Early Medieval Ireland. London
Foster, S. 2004 Picts, Gaels and Britons. London

Further suggestions for reading will be supplied at the dayschools.

Click here to download an application form.