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KAS Events

KAS Church Visits

St Mary’s, Sundridge & St Peter & Paul, Shoreham
Saturday 28 September

Please meet at 1.45 for 2pm start at St Mary’s Church, Sundridge. Church Road, Sundridge, Kent TN14 6DT. OS Grid Ref: TQ4861854950, OS Grid Coords: 548618, 154950

We will then move on to the Church of St Peter and St Paul, Shoreham, Station Road, Shoreham, Kent TN14 7SD. OS Grid Ref: TQ5229761590, OS Grid Coords: 552279, 161590

Cost £5 to include tea and biscuits at Shoreham Village Hall, provided by the Shoreham WI.

Please register by emailing or telephoning the Church Visits Secretary, Jackie Davidson (churchvisits@kentarchaeology.org.uk or 01634 324004)

KAS Historic Buildings Committee

Historic Buildings Conference

Saturday 26 October
Harrietsham Community Centre, 9.30am for 10am until 4pm.

The theme of this year’s Conference is Fortifications. Main topics are (provisionally):

• Bridge Castle by David Martin (Archaeology South-East);
• Slough Fort, Allhallows by Victor Smith;
• The Development of the Tower Armouries as an Exhibition Venue, by Malcolm Mercer (Curator of Tower History at the Royal Armouries Museum).

In the afternoon there will be various short talks, including accounts of local research projects.

Cost £10. Buffet lunch available.

Booking forms available online from the KAS website, or by post from Mr D Carder (KAS), 53 The Ridgeway, Chatham, Kent ME4 6PB. Please enclose an SAE.

Archaeology & Standing Buildings Study Day

One Day Workshop
Saturday 14 September, 10.00am – 16.00
Agricultural Museum at Brook, near Wye, TN25 5PF

Organised by Wye Rural Museum Trust and Canterbury Archaeological Trust, with Kent Archaeological Society and the Dover Archaeological Group, to provide practical experience in the study of archaeology & standing buildings.

The day will be run in TWO sessions: morning and afternoon, and ALL the workshops will take place in BOTH sessions.

Timetable:

• 10.00 – 10.30 Coffee and registration
• 10.30 – 12.30 First Session
• 12.30 – 13.30 Lunch (not provided)
• 13.30 – 15.30 Second Session
• 15.30 – 16.00 Tea and way forward

There will be FOUR workshops covering the following:

• Field walking (or alternative if problems of availability)
• Finds identification & recording
• Reading stone buildings
• Assessing timber-frame buildings

Please select workshops in order of preference (see application form). Due to limitations on group size early application is advisable. However, every endeavour will be made to give participants their first two choices. To that end, tickets will be allocated on a first come, first served basis and will be sent out at the end of August.

Cost £30 for the day. Please bring a packed lunch. Cheques made payable to CAT.

Application form is available on the KAS, Museum Trust and CAT websites or direct from Dr S. Sweetinburgh, 11 Caledon Terrace, Canterbury CT1 3JS; s.m.sweetinburgh@kent.ac.uk or 01227 472490. Please enclose a SAE if using Royal Mail.

Kent: Immigration and Emigration

One Day Conference
7 December, 9.30am – 16.00
Grimond Building, University of Kent, Canterbury.

The Kent Archaeological Society, with the support of the School of History, University of Kent.

The conference will focus on the role of population movements, immigrants and emigrants to and from Kent from the settlement of very early migrants crossing the Channel to Kent to the modern movements since the 16th century.

• 9.30 Arrival and registration
• 10.00 Welcome: Professor Kenneth Fincham, Head of the School of History
• 10.15 A fine mixer-matxer! Incomers, multiculturalism and cultural transmission in prehistoric Kent? by Peter Clark
• 10.45 The “Romans” in Kent by Jake Weekes
• 11.15 COFFEE
• 11.30 Who were the Cantwara? Migration and Identity in early Anglo-Saxon Kent by Andrew Richardson
• 12.00 Ethnicity in Norman Kent by Richard Eales
• 12.30 LUNCH
• 13.45 Starting a new life: the Infranties in Ricardian and Henrician Canterbury by Sheila Sweetinburgh
• 14.15 Immigrants from the Low Countries to Kent in the late 16th and early 17th centuries: the experience of the port and town of Sandwich by Jane Andrews
• 14.45 TEA
• 15.00 A small but persistent presence: people of African origin and descent in Kent since c.1600 by David Killingray
• 15.30 Migrants to the Kent Coalfields until Nationalisation in 1947 by Ann Kneif
• 16.00 Closing remarks: Ian Coulson, President of Kent Archaeological Society

Conference fee £10.00, including tea and coffee. Lunch not provided, but may be bought at various outlets on campus.

Please print off, complete and return the booking form in the Events section of the KAS website or contact admin@kentarchaeology.org.uk for further details.

Events Around Kent

Landscapes of South-East Britain during the Roman Period

Conference & AGM - Council for British Archaeology: South East, with the Kent Archaeological Field School
Saturday 16 November

Assembly Rooms, Preston Street, Faversham, Kent. 9.30am to 4.30pm.

• Jeremy Hodgkinson ‘The Landscape of Iron Production in the Roman Weald’
• Lacey Wallace ‘A newly discovered Roman villa in Bourne Park, Canterbury’
• David Staveley ‘The Sussex Roman road network’
• Simon Elliot ‘The Upper Medway during the Roman Occupation: Industry, agriculture and elites’
• David Rudling ‘Roman period Settlement and Land-use in the Sussex Ouse Valley’
• David Bird ‘Landscapes of Roman Surrey’
• Paul Wilkinson ‘Villa landscapes in Roman Kent’
• Andrew Richardson ‘Emporium to villa: 500 years at East Wear Bay, Folkestone’

Tickets available in advance from www.kafs.co.uk/news.aspx or 01795 532548 for booking form. Cost £8 for members of CBA SE and KAFS or £10 for non-members and on the day.

Friends of Canterbury Archaeological Trust

11 September
Royal Norman Castles in Kent
Richard Eales
2 October 2013.
The Stones of Canterbury
Geoff Downer

Both talks at 7pm, Room 03, Newton, Canterbury Christ Church University, North Holmes Road, Canterbury.

FCAT requests a donation of £2.00 for members, £3.00 for non-members and £1.00 for students, to cover costs and help support the activities of the Archaeological Trust.

Crofton Roman Villa (opposite Orpington Railway Station)

Festival of British Archaeology Family Fun Event
Sunday 21 July

Guided talk of the villa house for adults, with activity sessions for children with Roman artefacts and dress up as Romans. Children and adults can then do the villa quiz and win a special villa badge each and joint certificate!

Sessions at 10.30am and 2pm.

For all the family - children to be accompanied. No booking needed.

Entry £1.50/concessions £1.00.

Growing up as a Roman Child

Every Wednesday in August
Find out about Roman babies, games and toys and join in a Roman lesson. Make a Roman child’s good luck charm and take part in a Roman citizen’s quiz to win your Roman citizen certificate and badge.

Sessions at 10.30am and 2pm.

For 5-11 year olds, children to be accompanied. No booking needed.

Entry £4.00 per child, accompanying adult free.

Costumes and Horrible Habits through the Ages

Every Friday in August
Discover some horrible habits! Find out about fabulous fashions! Make a collage of a fashionable historical character (from Celts to Victorians) and take home a horrible habits information sheet.

Sessions at 10.30am and 2pm.

For 5-11 year olds, children to be accompanied. No booking needed.

Entry £4.00 per child, accompanying adult free.

For more info visit http://cka.moon-demon.co.uk/villa.htm or from Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit, tel: 020 8460 1442, email: crofton.roman.villa@gmail.com

Shorne Woods Country Park, off the A2 between Gravesend and Rochester

Archaeology in the Park until 28 July

Visit the excavation of Randall Manor, now in its 8th season, 11am – 3pm each day. Free guided tours.

Re-enactment weekend with the Woodville Household 27 & 28 July

For more details visit www.facebook.com/archaeologyinkent email: andrew.mayfield@kent.gov.uk tel: 07920 548906

The Orpington and District Archaeological Society

Annual Open Weekend, opening the excavations at Scadbury Manor, Chislehurst
14 & 15 September, 2 – 4.30pm (last entry).

Admission free.

Visitors can follow a self-guided trail around the moated manor site, see ODAS’ excavations, and explore the foundations of the Tudor kitchens and Great Hall to see how they would have been used when the house was owned by the Walsingham family. It’s also possible to see the World War II defences, and a restored shepherd’s or gamekeeper’s hut which belonged to the estate in the 19th century.

Refreshments, bookstall and exhibition about the history of Scadbury (and WC).

Access is from the public footpath around the estate. Entrance to the site is where the footpath passes the moated site. Nearest access from the road is along the footpath at 14 St Paul’s Wood Hill; turn left along the circular footpath, 5 mins walk. From Old Perry Street car park, the entrance is around 30 mins walk along the footpath.

There is some limited parking at the site for elderly/disabled visitors; apply with SAE to ODAS, 28 Church Avenue, Sidcup, DA14 6BU.

For more information about ODAS and Scadbury see www.odas.org.uk