Agriculture, Industry and Trade in the Roman South East

9.30 – 10.00

Registration

10.00 – 10.10

Chair: Paul Booth 

Welcome and introduction

10.10 – 10.50

James Gerrard (Newcastle University)

‘Living by the Medway Marsh: Roman and early medieval activity at Grange Farm, Gillingham Kent’

10.50 – 11.30

Anne Sassin (Kent Downs AONB)

‘Gods and grains: new insights into ritual and agricultural activity at Lullingstone Roman Villa, Kent'

11.30 – 11.50

Tea & coffee break

11.50 – 12.30

Philip Smither (West Berkshire Heritage)

‘Re-investigating trade at Richborough’

12.30 – 13.10

Louise Rayner (Archaeology South-East)

‘New findings, old archives: recent research on Roman pottery’

13.10 – 14.20

Lunch

14.20 – 15.00`

Lindsay Banfield (York Archaeology)

‘Making flour the German Way: imported lava querns and millstones in Roman Britain and Sussex’

15.00 – 15.40

Damian Goodburn (MoLA)

‘Evidence for Roman woodworking and woodlands in the SE of England’

15.40 – 16.00

Break

16.00 – 16.40

Martyn Allen (Oxford Archaeology)

‘New evidence for Roman iron production at Bexhill, Sussex’

16.40 – 16.50

Closing remarks