What’s On

KAS EVENTS

KAS PLACE NAMES COMMITTEE CONFERENCE

Saturday 6 November 10.30am – 4.30pm
Rochester Visitor Centre, 95 High Street, Rochester

Three speakers from the Institute for Name-Studies, University of Nottingham

Programme:

• Coffee
• Place-names in the Rochester area Dr Paul Cullen
• Coining names: legends and language in Anglo-Saxon England Dr Jayne Carroll
• Lunch (there are many eating places nearby)
• The place-names of Anglo-Saxon governance Dr John Baker
• Kentish surnames in the Middle Ages Dr Paul Cullen

We are grateful to the three speakers from the Institute for Name-Studies for their time and expertise - this should be a very good day.

Tickets £7.50 each. Cheques in advance please, payable to KAS, to be sent to Anita Thompson (KAS), Brattle Farm, Five Oak Lane, Staplehurst. Kent. TN12 0HE. Phone 01580 891222. Email anita@anitathompson9.wanadoo.co.uk.

EVENTS AROUND KENT

BEXLEY ARCHAEOLOGICAL GROUP

One Day Workshop: Make a Neolithic arrow, with Will Lord
Saturday 23 October 10am - 4.30pm

Make a flint arrowhead (leaf-shaped or barbed & tanged), make a shaft from ash, fix the arrowhead on with lime bast and pine resin and then fletch the arrow.

Cost: £45. To be held at Bexley-Sidcup Conservative Club, 19 Station Road, Sidcup, Kent

For further information or to book a place contact Pip Pulfer at: pipspad@hotmail.co.uk or 07961 963 893, or go to www.bag.org.uk.

CONFERENCES

Council for Kentish Archaeology & Surrey Archaeological Society Joint Conference - Roman Villas In Kent and Surrey

Saturday 23 October 2 – 5.30pm
Old Sessions Lecture Theatre, Canterbury Christ Church University

• Introduction to the Surrey Villas Dr David Bird
• Abinger Roman Villa Nikki Cowlard & Emma Corke
• Ashtead Roman Villa Dr David Bird
• Rescuing Roman Villas in Kent Brian Philp

Tickets £5.00 available from CKA, Sandy Ridge, Borough Green, TN15 8HP. Please include SAE. Further details from Ruth Plummer, email: davru58-arch@yahoo.co.uk or 0208 7777872, or from Richard Ansell on 01732 884059, or at www.the-cka.fsnet.co.uk.

Council for Kentish Archaeology & Kent Local History Federation, joint Conference

Saturday 7 May 2011 at Crofton Halls, Orpington

Details to follow in the January Newsletter

TALKS

Crayford Manor House Historical & Archaeological Society

PROGRAMME OF TALKS 2010/2011

• Saturday 13 November
  A Country Christmas Pat Mortlock
• Saturday 11 December
  Kipling - his life and work (in costume), Geoff Hutchinson
• Saturday 8 January 2011
  A Brief Education Crayford Town Archive
• Saturday 12 February 2011
  Gad’s Hill Place - Dickens’ Little Kentish Freehold Anne Carter
• Saturday 12 March 2011
  How Charing got its Cross John Halligan
• Saturday 16 April 2011
  AGM and President’s Lecture

All meetings held at The Baker Trust Hall, Maxim Road, Crayford at 7pm for 7.30pm. Non-members welcome to attend at a fee of £3.00 per lecture (except for December when there is an additional charge).

Enquiries to Mrs J. Hearn-Gillham, phone: 01322 551279, email: janet.hearn-gillham@ntlworld.com

Details of the Society’s summer excursions from Mr L.Davies on 01322 525335.

Canterbury Archaeological Society Winter Programme

Ramsey Lecture Theatre, Canterbury Christ Church University
All talks start at 6pm

• Saturday 20 November 2010
  Recent Discoveries at St Alban’s Court, Nonington Peter Hobbs
• Saturday 4 December
  St Mildred’s Tannery Site, Canterbury - archaeological discoveries Simon Pratt
• Saturday 15 January 2011
  The Game of Kings – a history of chess Richard Eales
• Saturday 29 January (lecture theatre may differ)
  The Frank Jenkins Memorial Lecture: annual review of the work of Canterbury Archaeological Trust Paul Bennett
• Saturday 12 February
  Liturgical and Archaeology in Medieval Canterbury Dr Helen Glass
• Saturday 5 March
  Investigations at Bekesbourne – the history of a Kentish village David Gilmour

Friends of CAT and other visitors most welcome. £2 per lecture.

COURSES

LOCAL HISTORY - SOURCES

St Leonard’s Social Centre, Deal
Mondays 2 - 4pm from 7th March 2011
Tutor: Maureen Criddle

An introduction to the wide range of sources available to enable you to discover the fascinating story of your area’s past and the people who lived there. Topics covered include:

EVENTS ELSEWHERE

CONFERENCE

The Archaeology of Wooded Landscapes
Saturday 12th February
Field trips, morning of Sunday 13th February
Meridian Hall, East Grinstead

A joint Conference between the Historic Environment Awareness Project (East Sussex County Council Archaeology Team) and the Sussex Archaeological Society

Programme:

• Woodland Usage in Anglo-Saxon England as illustrated in contemporary documents and place names Dr Delia Hooke (University of Birmingham)
• Hunting, Farming and fuel: the transitory character of English woodlands Dr Mark Gardiner (Queens University, Belfast)
• You can’t see the wood for the trees – locating and recording modern military features in woodlands Roger JC Thomas (Military Support Officer, English Heritage)
• The flora and fauna of archaeological sites in woodlands Dr Patrick Roper, (Ecologist)
• New technology, new sites, new insights: Discoveries across the Weald Forest Ridge through LiDAR Vivienne Blandford (Landscape Archaeologist)
• Wyre Forest – on transcription and validation of LiDAR using volunteers Adam Mindykowski (Worcs County Council)
• Our woodland - divided, but still united! A case study of multiple ownership and archaeological investigation Owners of Waste Wood, Buxted
• Understanding the history of wooded landscapes: Are we asking the right questions? Towards a new research agenda Dr Nicola Bannister (Landscape Archaeologist)

Sunday field trips 10.20-12.30am (free) to:

• Gravetye Manor, West Hoathly (designed landscape incorporating iron working remains) led by Nicola Bannister
• Brede High Woods, Cripps Comer (woodland landscape with woodland management, iron working and routeways) led by David Brown, South East Woodland Archaeology Forum
• Broadwater Warren, Tunbridge Wells (military use in the Napoleonic period and both World Wars) led by Vivienne Blandford

Conference tickets £30 (students £20). Optional hot buffet lunch £5. Book online at www.sussexpastshop.co.uk or tel: 01273 405737 or email members@sussexpast.co.uk for booking form.

RESEARCHING LOCAL HISTORY

20 sessions
Thursdays 2 - 4pm, 23rd Sept 2010 to 4th June 2011
Tutor: Maureen Criddle
The Landmark Centre, Deal 129 High Street, Deal CT14 6BB

Fortnightly tutor-guided practical course researching topics of interest in Upper Deal’s history. The period to be investigated is c.1750 - 1830. We shall discover material from the original sources to create a picture and present it in an exhibition. This is the third year the course has been offered, the previous two have uncovered a wealth of detail about Upper Deal.

Course fee £150.00, payable in two instalments.

For further details about these and any other WEA courses in the Dover/ Deal area contact Alan Buckman on 01304 367711

EGYPTOLOGY with FRANCES WILLIAMS

Based in Canterbury or Tonbridge

Courses planned for after Christmas include ‘Old Kingdom Egypt’, and ‘The Art of Amenhotep III and Akhenaten’, as well as ongoing hieroglyph groups. A trip to the Louvre is being considered, with perhaps a short course or single preparatory class session beforehand - please contact me if this might be of interest to you.

All courses £57. To reserve a place on a course or if you have any queries, please contact 07789 661616 (if leaving voicemail please give telephone number within your message) or fwiepiste@hotmail.com.

LOCAL HISTORY - SOURCES

St Leonard’s Social Centre, Deal
Mondays 2 - 4pm from 7th March 2011
Tutor: Maureen Criddle

An introduction to the wide range of sources available to enable you to discover the fascinating story of your area’s past and the people who lived there. Topics covered include: the house, parish, military, the poor, taxes, the census etc. The knowledge gained will allow you to access archives with confidence to begin local history research. The tutor is a historian with many years experience in local and family history research.

Course fee £75.00

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To order your copy, send a cheque payable to Kent Archaeological Society to Peter Tann, Town Place, Belmont, Nr Faversham ME13 OHE.