Lecture Program 2021 - 2022
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AGM POSTPONED UNTIL SEPTEMBER 2021
AGM
Members only
Via Zoom. Log in details circulated to members via bulletin and e mail.
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Via Zoom. Log in details circulated to members via bulletin and e mail.
September 14th 2021 The Margaret Rylatt Memorial Lecture:
The Burrough Hill Project
John Thomas is a Project Manager at the University of Leicester Archaeological Services who has directed many large-scale excavation projects including that of the extensive Iron Age settlement at Glenfield and he co-directed research excavations at Burrough Hill. He has published widely.
www2.le.ac.uk/services/ulas/about/staff-folder
Burrough Hill is the best example of a large single-banked hillfort in Leicestershire and the finest preserved Iron Age Hillfort in the region.. Between 2010 and 2014 this project recovered nationally important prehistoric metalwork. www2.le.ac.uk/.../research/projects/burrough-hill various websites
NB: It is currently planned that the AGM will be held before this lecture, starting at 7:00pm.
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Via Zoom. Log in details circulated to members via bulletin and e mail.
October 12th 2021 Roman Warwick
Caroline Rann is Archaeological Projects Manager at Archaeology Warwickshire and has worked for them since 2000. She has manged a variety of projects, is a committee member of the Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society and has a particular interest in prehistoric and Roman periods.
www.archaeologywarwickshire.co.uk/who-we-are
During construction work for a new school on the Banbury Road in Warwick archaeologists discovered a previously unknown villa. The excavation brought to light the largest ancient building in the region. It was constructed out of local sandstone and was used for agricultural purposes.
news.warwickshire.gov.uk/blog/2018/02/07/
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November 9th 2021 The Body in History
Dr Harris is Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of Leicester. In 2016 he was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Archaeology and he is co-director of the Ardnamurchan Transitions Project. As well as publishing numerous journal articles and papers and a number of books he is co-author of The Body in History which won two Professional and Scholarly Excellence awards presented by the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division. www2.le.ac.uk/.../people/academics/harris
Archaeological discoveries show that during the past 40,000 years people have depicted the human form in many ways and treated the body in life death and art in varying fashions over the ages. The lecture will be based findings in the award-winning book.
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December 14th 2021 John Shelton Memorial Lecture:
The Salt Lane Excavations
Nigel Page is Projects Manager and Technical Lead for Archaeology Warwickshire. He has worked in archaeology since 1984 and has managed a wide variety of projects in the construction, utilities and infrastructure sectors with a particular interest in historic buildings and medieval and post-medieval archaeological remains. www.archaeologywarwickshire.co.uk › who-we-are
Salt Lane in Coventry city centre is now mainly notable for a multi-storey car park and the view of Ford’s Hospital but it was once a thriving street in the middle of a bustling city. Even the names of some of its former inhabitants are known. The recent excavations revealed much of this almost forgotten past.
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Physical Meeting at Friends Meeting House.
January 11th 2022 The Berk Farm Burial Mounds on the Isle of Man
Dr Crellin is Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Leicester. She specialises in Later Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain and Ireland. She completed a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship between 2015-17. She is part of the Leverhulme funded Beyond the Three Age System project team at Leicester as well as co-director of the Round Mounds of the Isle of Man project and a member of the Bronze Age Combat project. She has published extensively.
www2.le.ac.uk/.../people/associates/rachel-crellin
The Round Mounds of the Isle of Man project explores changing burial practices from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age on the island and in the wider Irish Sea context. It began in September 2016 and has included osteological analysis of Neolithic and Bronze Age human remains as well as radiocarbon, isotopic, and DNA analysis of samples. The location of over 180 burial mounds on the Island are being mapped. In 2019 finds i ncluded a
“ spectacular prehistoric necklace”.
roundmounds.wordpress.com
w.w.w.bbc.com/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-490527
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_Physical Meeting at Friends Meeting House.
February 8th 2022 Rediscovering Medieval Coventry in Maps
Mark Webb is Fundraising & Development Manager at the Prince's Foundation and a trustee of the Historic Coventry Trust. He is one of the experts involved in the Medieval Coventry Group, has organised conferences on the city’s history and published articles in various journals. Between 2015 and 2017 he led a major UK-wide fundraising training programme for The Heritage Alliance. He has twice given the John Shelton Memorial Lecture for CADAS.
He will be discussing the recently published ‘Historical Map of Coventry’ and how various spaces in the city were used to reveal a picture of Coventry in many ways different from the present. A city that was once a source of great economic power and where Parliament was held on occasion.
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Physical Meeting at Friends Meeting House.
March 8th 2022 The Anglo-Saxon Hall at Atcham
Dr White was Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Birmingham until last mid 2021. He was the Leverhulme Research Fellow on the Wroxeter Hinterland Project, and though very much associated with this site his PhD was in Anglo-Saxon archaeology. From 2000 until 2018 he was Academic Director of the Ironbridge Institute ( later named Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage ) He has published widely and in the past few years has given excellent lectures to CADAS about the Romans in the West Midlands and about Ironbridge.
In 2017 in conjunction with National Trust archaeologist Janine Young he excavated a site on the Attingham Park estate only known previously from cropmarks. What they discovered was the remains of an Anglo Saxon hall. Only a few number of halls like this have been excavated in Britain making it a really fascinating site with some interesting finds.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/attingham-park/features
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Physical Meeting at Friends Meeting House.
April 12th 2022 Excavations in the Temple of Deir el Bahri- how early archaeologists rebuilt the past
Chris Kirby is a history teacher who in the past has been Audience Development and Engagement Manager at Leicester City Council. He has worked at Coventry’s Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, the British Museum and Ashmolean Museum. From 1998-1999 he was Leverhulme Trust Research fellow based at Kings College London looking at the pharaonic occupation of the Fayyum Depression in Egypt. He has excavarted at various sites in Egypt including Amarna. Over the years he has given many informative and interesting lectures to CADAS.
Deir el Bahri is a site composed of mortuary temples and tombs on the west bank of the Nile, opposite the city of Luxor. Excavations there have uncovered a wealth of information about the ancient Egyptian civilisation. In particular it brought to light the reign of Hatshepsut, one of the few female pharoahs. After sidelining the stepson for whom she was acting as regent she reigned succeessfully for over twenty years, subduing enemies and launching building projects including her own famous mortuary temple. She encouraged trade and sent missions abroad. Some decades after her death an attempt to erase her from the historical record as a ruler resulted in her disappearance from the official listing of monarchs. It was only in the late ninetteenth century AD that this remarkable woman who ruled a century before Tutankhmamen was once more recognised as a pharoah.
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Physical Meeting at Friends Meeting House.
May 10th 2022 AGM
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