From the President

Welcome to the first of our two newsletters for 2015. The response to the new format autumn newsletter has been excellent and we hope to repeat the same extended format this autumn. In the meantime this edition covers the annual programme for the Society for 2015 and we hope you find it useful to plan your year. Once again we are working in partnership with several organizations, Canterbury Archaeological Trust and KCC, to provide training excavations for our members and the public. We are also running several conferences with Christ Church University, the University of Kent, University of Reading, Thanet Trust for Archaeology, Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit and others! This allows us to share costs and publicity whilst coordinating some of the work across the county and getting everyone together. Thank you to all the KAS members who make these events possible. We have also increased the KAS publicity in the press and elsewhere through the work of Paul Tritton. Lyn Palmer continues to edit the newsletter and of course Terry Lawson is editor of Archaeologia Cantiana, our highly regarded research journal. Thank you.

In the coming year we hope to keep up the development of our website so we can all keep in touch online. If at any stage you feel you would like to join the Council or offer your services, such as to help run conferences, please get in touch with the Hon. Sec. Remember - you can always join one of our committees if you have a specialist interest. Most recently we have established a Historic Defences Committee and a group specializing in Romney Marsh and the Kent coast.

Enjoy the coming year.

Ian Coulson, President