Lectures, Conferences, Courses and Events
KAS EVENTS
Booking forms for KAS events appear on page 5 opposite.
Church and Monastery in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Society ~ Saturday 26th April from 10am. Conference organised jointly by the KAS and Canterbury Christ Church University College.
KAS ‘LECTURES IN THE LIBRARY’
Kent Sources I by Dr Jacqueline Bower ~ Saturday 3rd May
Kent Sources II by Dr Jacqueline Bower ~ Saturday 28th June
Both Lectures take place in the KAS Library in Maidstone Museum, starting at 11am. Tickets £2.00 for each lecture.
KAS Churches Committee Outing ~ Saturday 3rd May
The Churches Committee invites you to visit Allhallows Church and St. Margaret’s Church, High Halstow. We meet at Allhallows Church at 1.45 for 2pm. The charge for the talks and tours is £2 per person plus 50p for tea at High Halstow. Money for both visit and tea should be paid in advance by April 20th. Please note that Allhallows church which we are visiting will be destroyed if the airport at Cliffe is built. The whole marshland scenery, which will also be destroyed, can be seen while in transit.
KAS AGM ~ Saturday 17th May. Details of this appear on the pull-out section at the centre of this Newsletter.
KAS Summer Social Evening ~ Saturday 31st May
To Godinton House, Great Chart, Ashford, with buffet supper. Great Chart Church 4pm, tour of House 5.30pm (after normal closing hours). £15.00. We will visit Great Chart Church to ‘meet’ the Toke family through their many memorials and then proceed to their home. Godinton House is one of the most important houses in Kent. From its medieval origins many generations of the Toke family and subsequent owners have embellished and added to Godinton and the result is a charming house whose history is revealed through the variety of its style, taste and furnishings from the 14th century to the present day.
KAS New Horizons Lecture Season
‘Problems in Archaeology’ by Alan Ward ~ Saturday 7th June at 2.30pm in the Ramsey Lecture Theatre, Christ Church University College, North Holmes Road, Canterbury.
As both an amateur and a professional archaeologist, the speaker has come across many problems within the discipline. Notwithstanding the fact that many archaeologists are not actually ‘normal’, and finance always problematic, this lecture will try to concentrate on problems of interpretation and logistics connected with sites.
The KAS Summer Excursion ~ 6th-23rd June to the Wye Valley & Kilvert Country.
Visiting, amongst others, Goodrich and Chepstow Castles, Hereford Cathedral & the Mappa Mundi, Abbey Dore and Tintern Abbey, the 12th century Kilpeck church and Berrington Hall. Based in the Chase Hotel, Ross-on-Wye, a Georgian building set in 11 acres of grounds. For more details of this wonderful trip see page 15 of the last Newsletter or contact Joy Saynor, Excursions Secretary, Friars, Shoreham, Sevenoaks TN14 7TD tel: 01959 522713
OTHER EVENTS FROM AROUND THE COUNTY
Isle of Thanet Archaeological Society
Thursday 24th April ~ ‘Underground Kent’ by Rod LeGear of the Kent Underground Research Group.
Thursday 3rd July ~ ‘Aviation in Thanet’ by David Collyer
Thursday 18th September ~ ‘The Jutes in Kent – Myth or Reality?’ by Andrew Richardson.
All at 7.45pm (doors open 7.15pm) in St George’s School, Westwood Road, Broadstairs. £3.50 on the door or £3.00 in advance (please enclose a SAE) from the Events Secretary, T.S. Crampton Tower Yard, High Street, Broadstairs, CT10 2AB tel: 01843 860029
University of Kent ~ The Annual Darwin Lecture
Friday 9th May ‘Neanderthals: brutes or brothers?’ by Professor Christopher Stringer, the Natural History Museum, London. 6pm in the Lord Bradbourne Lecture Theatre, Keynes College, University of Kent at Canterbury. Admission free.
Professor Stringer is a leading international authority on Homo sapiens neanderthalensis and has written extensively comparing Neanderthal lifestyles to those of early modern humans.
Sevenoaks Historical Society
Thursday 24th April ~ ‘Children of National Trust Houses’ by Heather Woodward at St Nicholas, Sevenoaks. £1.50 for non-members.
Tonbridge Historical Society
Other Courses
Archaeology with the University of Kent
Archaeology can be studied at various levels with the University of Kent on its well-established part-time programmes. The prospectus is now available. Applications are very welcome from anyone who wishes to study for a university qualification in the subject.
The part-time evening programmes leading to the Certificate in Archaeological Studies, History & Archaeological Studies are also run in the daytime on the University’s Canterbury Campus. They can be followed on either a full or part-time basis.
Demonstrable aptitude and commitment are more important than formal qualifications for entry to the Certificate in Archaeological Studies. For further information, contact the Unit for Regional Learning, Keynes College, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NP. Tel 0800 9753777 (24 hours). Email: part-time@ukc.ac.uk
The Kent Archaeological Field School offers many practical archaeology courses including Field Walking, Archaeobotany, Aerial Photography, Bones & Burials, Prehistoric Woodwork and Surveying. They also offer local excavation work and field trips in Britain to Bath & the Roman Cotswolds and Hadrian’s Wall, and abroad to the Bay of Naples and Roman Provence. For further details see the flyer enclosed in this issue or tel: 01795 532548 email: info@kafs.co.uk or log onto www.kafs.co.uk.
Other Events
Thanet Archaeological Society
Saturday 15th November ~ Meet the Local Archaeologists
Displays, slides shows, talk to the archaeologists, make a mosaic, bookstall and refreshments. 2.30-4.30 at St Peter’s Church Hall, St Peter’s, Broadstairs. Admission £2.00 on the door.
North Downs Young Archaeologists’ with the Museum of Kent Life
Sunday 20th July ~ National Archaeology Days Event ~ ‘100 Years of Transition’
11am – 4pm in the Museum of Kent Life, Cobtree, Lock Lane, Sandling, Maidstone.
Life in the late Iron Age and beyond with the coming of Rome. Come and meet the tribe of the Cantaci, make a pot, be woad-painted, taste ancient recipes, make Roman sandals, design a chariot, create Celtic and Roman jewellery and much more. Display of artefacts of the period from Maidstone Museum, some for handling, and information stands from archaeological groups. A great family day out, not be missed.
KAS New Horizons Lecture Season
‘Problems in Archaeology’ by Alan Ward on Saturday 7th June in Canterbury
Advance tickets from the Box Office, Canterbury Bookings, 12/13 Sun Street, The Buttermarket, Canterbury CT1 2HX tel: 01227 378188 fax: 01227 378141 email: boxoffice@canterbury.gov.uk
Tickets are on sale at the Box Office until 11.30am on the day of the event, thereafter any remaining tickets available at the door.