Annual KAS Summer Excursion

This year’s mid-June excursion to Dorset was attended by 23 members from all parts of Kent. They studied, in Wessex, a range of sites dating from the Iron Age (Maiden and Poundbury Castles) to the early 20th century (Thomas Hardy’s last home, Max Gate). Examples from the intervening centuries included the site of the brutal murder of an Anglo-Saxon King, one of the best presented Henrican coastal castles, as well as Corfe (considerably ‘knocked about’ by Cromwell) and a classic country house, Kingston Lacy. Next June we propose to visit Cumbria.