Surrey Archaeology retweeted
Our next Finds Identification Session will be on Sat 13 Apr.
Bring your interesting finds to our Finds Identification Session and discover out more about them. Surrey Finds Liaison Officer, Dr Simon Maslin will take a look.
👉 Sat 13 Apr
👉 10am – 12pm
👉 Guildford House
ALT Amber/ copper coloured flint stone
Our Annual Symposium returns and will take place this year at East Horsley on Saturday 9 March. The day will cover recent fieldwork and research over the past year, with the full programme and booking info now available surreyarchaeology.org.uk/con… #surrey #archaeology #history
Richard Savage (@surreyarch) will then address 'Old Woking: the settlement over time', looking at the settlement's development from the later 7th century onwards, using evidence from an extensive test pitting programme and documentary sources #testpitting #oldwoking #archaeology
ALT Test pitting in gardens at Old Woking
Catherine Langham (@aocarchaeology) is the penultimate talk of the day and will be speaking on 'Roman to Medieval Activity in #Effingham: Recent Excavations at Church Street'.
Still time to book for this Saturday's annual symposium! surreyarchaeology.org.uk/con… #archaeology #surrey
ALT Medieval features at Church Street, Effingham excavations (Photo AOC Archaeology)
Booking is now open for the online 'Pills, Potions and Poisons' #SHERF23 on Sat 24 Nov, which will look at the #history and #archaeology of medical practice. Speakers include Lorna Webb, Martin Huggon, Judie English, Mary Alexander and Patty Baker. See surreyarchaeology.org.uk/con…
Still time to book for Saturday's SHERF and full programme of interesting talks, including @ArchSouthEast's Lorna Webb who will be kicking off the day with 'The 9 herb charm – an archaeological approach'
surreyarchaeology.org.uk/con…
Our second speaker of the morning at Saturday's SHERF is @BGULincoln's Martin Huggon, who will be talking on 'Communities of the living, communities of the dead: hospitals in medieval social life' See surreyarchaeology.org.uk/con… to book your tickets now
Thankfully the rain mostly held for our geophysics session with the @ChertseyMuseum YACs and @NatTrustArch today at #Ankerwycke. Some excellent technique on hand, and such enthusiasm! #landscapesurvey #geophysics @YAC_CBA
Congratulations 👏 to @madebyKG on her innovative choreography and archaeology Gathering Place project, which featured one of Surrey's finest, Holmbury Hillfort #ironage #surrey #archaeology #holmbury
We’re new to #HillfortWednesday, but here’s our contribution: vimeo.com/854824800
The 3rd in our trilogy of #choreography #archaeology films made with @DanMartinArtist @ellaandcompany @thelucystarks this year, filmed on the ascent to #HolmburyHillfort in #Surrey @thehurtwood
Our Medieval Studies Forum are hosting their annual Zoom lecture/AGM on Thurs 16 November at 18:00 by Dr Gabor Thomas @UniRdg_Arch on ‘Anglo-Saxon monasteries of the Middle Thames: New Archaeological Perspectives from Cookham, Berkshire’. To register see surreyarchaeology.org.uk/con…
ALT aerial view of Cookham, Berkshire
Surrey Archaeology retweeted
Interested in maps and local history? Then come along to the Surrey Local History Committee Autumn Symposium this Saturday (11 Nov) at Surrey History Centre, Woking, for a varied programme of map-related talks. More info and book your place at @surreyarch tinyurl.com/mpav3wxa
ALT Finance Act map of Woking, c.1910
ALT Bomb map of Dorking area, post 1945
Surrey Archaeology retweeted
For #MapMonday, here is a wonderful map of #Guildford Town, c.1617, one of several maps commissioned by George Austen of Shalford
surreyarchives.org.uk/collec… #mapmonday
