Events, Outings, Lectures
KAS EVENTS
Saturday, September 7th. Day Excursion. For possible places due to late cancellations please apply, with sae or phone, to Mrs Saynor for details on this outing. An all day coach visit to Flag Fen near Peterborough - the extremely important Bronze Age site.
Please note: By popular request the 1997 Spring/Summer one week trip will be to Normandy. Mrs Saynor will be arranging this later on in the year.
KAS LECTURE PROGRAMME Three Lectures have so far been arranged for the 1996/97 Season by our Lectures Secretary, Mr. Terry Lawson.
Saturday, 9th November 1996 Jill Eddison will speak at the Assembly Room, Tenterden on Romney Marsh: Archaeology Deep and Wide.
Saturday, 30th November. Peter Leach has agreed to repeat his talk on The Archaeology of Ightham at Yaldham Manor. Many people were unable to get tickets for this lecture last May so this is another opportunity for those who were disappointed on that occasion.
In January 1997 Gwen Jones will talk on Oast Houses and the Hop Industry of Kent and Sussex.
SEE ENCLOSED LEAFLET.
KAS CHRISTMAS BUFFET LUNCH. SEE ENCLOSED LEAFLET.
KAS FIELDWORK ACTIVITIES
KAS ONE DAY CONFERENCE ON ANGLO-SAXON KENT organised by the Fieldwork Committee. This conference entitled Dark Ages or Discovery? will take place on Saturday, 19th October 1996 at St. Pauls Church Hall, Boxley Road, Maidstone, 10.30 am to 5.00 pm. Speakers will include: Mr. K. Gravett (President, KAS), Mr. D. Perkins (Thanet Trust for Archaeology), Mr. K. Parfitt, (Dover Archaeological Group), Mr. P. Bennett (Canterbury Archaeological Trust), Mrs. S. C. Hawkes (University of Oxford). Tickets: £4 to KAS members. Non-members (or at the door) £5. Tickets and programme may be obtained from Dunelm House, Main Road, Icklesham, Winchelsea, East Sussex TN36 4AR.
Cheques payable to the Kent Archaeological Society. SAE please.
KAS TRAINING EXCAVATION Saturday, 31st August to 14th September 1996. The KAS, with the Trust for Thanet Archaeology is planning a series of two week Training Excavations on a Roman site in Minster-in-Thanet. It is NATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGY WEEKEND Saturday, 14th September, and Sunday 15th September 1996.
The Isle of Thanet Archaeological Society and their Young Archaeologists Club will host an Open Weekend at Minster-in- Thanet. Visitors will be able to view the completion of the season excavation at this Romano-British site. Quizzes and work-sheets will be available for children. The excavation is a collective effort by the Trust for Thanet Archaeology, Canterbury Archaeological Trust and the Kent Archaeological Society. Contact David Bacchus (as above).
ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF BUILDING RECORDERS Saturday, 12th October 1996. This Conference will take place at the Barn, Charing, commencing at 2.45 pm. It is hoped that contributors will include: Folklore and Witch Charms, A Merchant's House at West Malling, and A Painted Room at Dartford. Tickets are available at £1 for members and £2 for Visitors. In advance from Terry Lawson, or at the door. A cup of tea and biscuits will be available after the meeting at an extra charge. Kent Historic Buildings Parts booklets will be on sale.
LOWER MEDWAY ARCHAEOLOGICAL GROUP welcomes visitors (£1 entrance) to the lectures. Meetings take place in the Function Room, Kings Head, High St, (near the castle) and start at 8 pm.
Monday, 30th September 1996. Classis Britannicus by Dana Adler.
Monday, 25th November. Excavations at St. Gregory's Priory. by Mr.
M. Hicks, Canterbury Archaeological Trust.
KENT HISTORY SEMINARS, 1996. Dr. Shirley Black's popular day conferences continue with: Saturday, 21st September. New Lands for Old by Dr. S. Black and Gillian Rickard. For further details and enrolment write to: Dr. S. Black ROMNEY MARSH RESEARCH TRUST Saturday, 14th September 1996 Study Day. The Pre-history of the Marsh. In the morning there will be three short presentations at the Guildhall in Lydd and the afternoon will include field demonstrations at selected sites in the Lydd area.
Tickets: £10.00 (to include morning coffee and buffet lunch) Apply to Mrs.
Elspeth Keeling. Please enclose SAE, cheque to be made out to RMRT.
SHOREHAM & DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY welcomes visitors. Admission £1.50 to non-members. Meetings are held at Shoreham Village Hall, 7.30 pm for 8 pm.
Friday, 20th September 1996. Before the Aga. A talk by J. Saynor on early village kitchens.
Friday, 17th January 1997. The Shoreham Samuel Palmer Knew by Ken Wilson.
Friday, 21st March 1997. Canterbury Cathedral by Laurie Brewer.
COUNCIL FOR KENTISH ARCHAEOLOGY. Afternoon Conference at Canterbury. Saturday, 9th November 1996. 2.00 - 5.30 pm. entitled THE LATER DEFENCES OF KENT to be held at Christ Church College, North Holmes Road, Canterbury, Kent.
Speakers include The Defence of Kent in the Imperial War Museum by Jim Saunders (Defence Historian), 19th Century Defences in Kent by David Burridge (Kent Defence Res. Group), Air Defences of Kent in World War II by Dr. Colin Dobinson (CB.A), Cold War Defences in Kent by Victor Smith (Kent Defence Historian). Tickets: Price £2 (payable C.K.A. sae please) from 5 Harvest Bank, West Wickham, Kent BR4 9DL.
ROMAN PAINTED HOUSE BRASS RUBBING CENTRE. From April 1996 a selection of facsimiles will be available for brass rubbing. These will include some well-known medieval brasses from the S. E. and especially for children, figures of Roman soldiers. Open April - October daily (not Mondays) 10.00am to 5.00pm Entrance: £1.50 / 50p child, OAP plus modest additional charge for brass rubbing.
C.B.A. (South East) CONFERENCE Saturday, programme 26th, plus October membership 1996 Venue: details from London. Further details and EXCAVATIONS AT SCADBURY MOATED MANOR, CHISLEHURST. This site will again be open to the public this year on Saturday, 14th September and Sunday, 15th September.
Members of the Orpington & District Archaeological Society (ODAS) will give guided tours, showing the work that is currently being done on the site as well as the remains of the foundations of the buildings associated with the Walsingham family. Unlike many similar moated sites the island is still completely surrounded by water. Guided tours will be given at 15 minute intervals throughout both afternoons, the first at 2.00pm and the last at 4.30pm. There will also be a slide show, refreshments and a book stall. Admission is free. Limited car parking is available close to the site, by ticket only for which application should be made (enclosing a SAE and stating on which day required to: Mr. M. Meekums.
UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX (Centre for Continuing Education) is holding an afternoon seminar devoted to Maritime Archaeology; Tutor: Peter Marsden., Saturday, 28th, September 1996. Further details and to book contact CCE Education Building, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BRl 9RG (01273 678926).
LONDON LECTURES
Thursday, 14th, and Friday, 15th, November 1996. A conference at the British Museum jointly organised by the Societies for Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeology The Age of Transition: The Archaeology of En lish Culture 1400-1600 The conference will challenge the g traditional divide of medieval and post-medieval archaeology. Further details from Dr. Paul Stamper, Archaeology Service. Winston Churchill Building, Radbrook Centre, Shrewsbury SY3 9BJ.
Friday, 29th, November 1996. One-day conference, organised by RCHME with The Garden History Society, in London. Theme: There by Design: Field Archaeology in Parks and Gardens. Details from Paul Pattison, RCHME.
Saturday, 5th, October 1996. A Conference in the Museum of London. (10.30 to 4.30) organised by the Standing Conference on London Archaeology (SCOLA) on the theme of Dark Age London. Speakers will include Martin Welch, John Hines, Bob Cowie, Peter Rowsome, Lyn Blackmore and James Rackham. Tickets to the conference: £7.50 (£6 for individual members of SCOLA} to include tea and coffee. May be obtained from P. E. Pickering. Please enclose a S.A.E. and made payable to SCOLA.