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1066-1600
Medieval
Keeping the lights on at Hampton Court
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London Archaeologist's Annual Lecture will this year feature a report on archaeological works alongside the project to replace electrical cabling within Hampton Court. This has offered an opportunity to excavate within the buildings and is revealing earlier phases of construction.
Admission free but contact Becky Wallower to register your interest and for information: becky.wallower@dial.pipex.com
Alan Crocker Memorial Lecture - The History of Paper Making
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A Special Meeting - Alan Crocker Memorial Lecture
The History of Paper Making, with Particular Reference to Alan’s Research
by Phil Crockett, British Association of Paper Historians
Map of Surrey Research Park
Nasty Normans
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Relive the Battle of Hastings and discover the Norman skill of castle building using props from the Tower of London. Built as fortresses, they became administration centres and symbols of power for the Nasty Normans.
Cost: £5 per child, one adult free per child.
For further details there is a pdf attached or contact David Brooks, Bourne Hall Museum, Ewell. dbrooks@epsom-ewell.gov.uk
Heritage Open Day at Abinger
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The Abinger Research Centre and Library, situated in the former Abinger Hammer Village School, will be open to all for a special Heritage Open Day event.
Members of the Society will be set-up with displays featuring work and artefact displays from all periods, with opportunities to observe or take part in various activities, including environmental processing. The Library will be open and available for browsing or for research queries, and the new County Finds Liaison Officer will also be set-up and eager to meet with visitors.
Medieval Studies Forum - Wool and Sheep
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10.30am Registration: tea and coffee available
11.00am “From wool to cloth: the medieval textile industry in southern England, 1300-1600.” Dr John Hare, visiting research fellow at the University of Winchester
12.00am "Tithes on wool in east Surrey in 1535." Peter Balmer
12.30pm “Sheep & Wool – a practical guide.” David Graham
12.45pm Lunch break – tea and coffee available
Castle Studies: Current Research and the Future
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A conference organised by the Castle Studies Group to be held at the Society of Antiquaries will honour Derek Renn FSA, author of Norman Castles in Britain (1969/1973), and launch a Festschrift, Castles: History, Archaeology, Landscape and Architecture, edited by Neil Guy FSA. Speakers include Oliver Creighton FSA, Bob Higham FSA, Brian Kerr FSA, Neil Ludlow FSA and Pamela Marshall FSA.
Bookham Courte 2017
A fourth season of excavation at Bookham Courte, a medieval manor house near the centre of Great Bookham. Of the four new trenches, one was an extension of trench 7 in 2016. All the trenches contained medieval pottery suggesting the site went back to the 11th century. The remains of flint and mortar walls were found, but the archaeology showed that there had been various buildings or structures in the area over a long period.
Woking Palace publication
Many members of the Society will have participated in or visited the excavations at Woking Palace which took place between 2009 and 2015 and some will have visited the new permanent exhibition about the Palace and its surrounding deer-park at The Lightbox in Woking. The final stage of the HLF project has the production of a full report on these investigations at the Palace, which will provide much of interest to both archaeologists and those interested in the history of the medieval manor and its transformation into a Tudor palace. This will be followed later in 2018 by a shorter booklet aimed at the general public.
For anyone now wishing to purchase a copy the details are as follows:
Woking Palace publication
Many members of the Society will have participated in or visited the excavations at Woking Palace which took place between 2009 and 2015 and some will have visited the new permanent exhibition about the Palace and its surrounding deer-park at The Lightbox in Woking. The final stage of the HLF project has the production of a full report on these investigations at the Palace, which will provide much of interest to both archaeologists and those interested in the history of the medieval manor and its transformation into a Tudor palace. This will be followed later in 2018 by a shorter booklet aimed at the general public.
For anyone now wishing to purchase a copy the details are as follows: