CORNWALL ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Registered Charity No. 1055654

 
11 October  
     
   
 

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Norman Quinnell, 1925-2008
   
Members will be deeply saddened to learn that our Vice President and past President Norman Quinnell died on 13 April. One of CAS’s great stalwarts, Norman joined the Society in the 1960s, was a member of the committee from 1980, and President from 1991 to 1994. The Society thrived under his unassuming and common--sense leadership, and his contribution to Cornish archaeology, to CAS and to its members was huge, and generously given.
  
     
   

Norman’s knowledge of the field archaeology of the South West was unparalleled. Working as a field investigator, one of the unsung, and seemingly weatherproof, heroes of the Ordnance Survey, and then with the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, Norman visited, described and surveyed hundreds upon hundreds of sites both in Cornwall and beyond the Tamar – information which has been gratefully received as a cornerstone of the local Historic Environment Records. Seeing the initials ‘NVQ’ on the OS record cards has always been taken as a hallmark of quality. Norman’s exacting professionalism also stood out in major programmes of fieldwork on the Isles of Scilly and on Bodmin Moor, where, with Martin Fletcher, he surveyed a huge area with relentless commitment (178 square kilometres in just 18 months, to be precise). It was Norman too, again with Martin, who produced the definitive and superlative 1985 survey of Tintagel Island, a milestone in the study of early medieval Cornwall.


Members of CAS will have a shared sense of loss and join in expressing our sympathies to Henrietta and family members.

-- Peter Rose
     
30 June - 19 September   Dig Hungate Training Dig
   

Until 2012, York Archaeological Trust is excavating Hungate to reveal the rich heritage of York's city centre.  Dig Hungate is hosting the annual Archaeology Live! training excavation which is offering unprecedented opportunities to take part in the project.

Go to www.dighungate.com for more details.

     
1 July - 15 September   Roman Excavations in Bulgaria
   

An opportunity to join in field work in north-west Bulgaria is available through the Bulgarian Archaeological Society..

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14-16 March   Brittany Trip
   
    Another successful guided visit to Brittany has concluded.  Shown here are members of Cornwall Archaeological Society viewing the Iron Age stèle at Plestin-les-Grèves, Côtes-d'Armor.  The tour was led by Graeme Kirkham and Nigel Thomas.  (Photo credit: Graeme Kirkham)