Wednesday 11th March
Making Roman Glass
Prof Ian Freestone (UCL institute of Archaeology)
A return visit from Ian who provided us with an insight into Medieval Glass. This time he will take us into the world of Roman glass production. Ian is a Chemist – so expect a scientific exploration of this subject. Recommended viewing.
Register for this Zoom meeting Here .
Saturday March 14th: Recent restoration projects at Stowe House
Speaker: Anna McEvoy (Co-director Stowe House Preservation Trust)
The Stowe House Preservation Trust has spent 25 years restoring Stowe House. This talk updates the last major restoration project and current smaller projects, including uncovering hitherto unknown wall paintings.
Please come to the Discover Bucks Museum or Register now for the online lecture Here (We will email the Zoom meeting invitation to you).
Two walks around Hodgemoor Woods
Led by Nigel and Janet Rothwell
Timo Newton-syms
Taplow Court
TBA, a group visit to the Taplow Court Heritage Open Day with Sarah Gray
Registration available when date decided.
Any enquiries to Sarah on sarahgray707@btinternet.com.
The What Three Words location of the entrance is off Cliveden Road at https://w3w.co/diner.doors.chill .
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The societies latest newsletter is available online
(and can be downloaded) Here
Nominations for the BAS biannual Prize are now invited.
A commemorative prize for individuals or organisations, awarded for the best contribution to the County’s Archaeology or Heritage during the past two years.
The new County Council have launched the long awaited update to the online Heritage Portal for Buckinghamshire. The new online service has a current search engine and is linked directly to the HER database – so new entries are available via the portal immediately.
Access the new portal Here
The earliest books were written by impressing signs on flat squares of soft clay that were then baked hard under the sun.
You can find the full BAS Lecture programme Here
Our lectures are free and (normally) located in the County Museum, Church Street, Aylesbury HP20 2QP starting at 2.30pm. Lasting about one hour plus time for discussion. Refreshments are available after the event.
Two hundred people signed into the society’s first Conference-on-the-Web on Saturday 4 April. They heard and watched new archaeological discoveries across Buckinghamshire ahead of the construction of the HS2 high-speed rail line. They were all sitting safely in their own homes.
The speakers told of a Saxon longhouse excavated at Great Missenden, what appears to be a ceremonial circle on the route through the Chiltern escarpment at Wendover, Roman farm buildings in the Colne Valley, and a Saxon ‘sunken-floor’ building at Chetwode.
The on-line conference was a joint effort between the Bucks Archaeological Society and Fusion, who are the main archaeological contractors for HS2. Fusion provided the speakers and organised the ‘webinar’ technology which delivered the four-hour conference into people’s homes. Applause is difficult to project on-line, but a stream of email messages followed the end of the conference complimenting the speakers and the organisers.
The society’s members led the way by assessing the impact of HS2 on the county’s archaeology as soon as the HS2 project was announced in 2010.
The online conference was recorded. We will try and bring you a link to it as soon as we can.
The history of the local pubs and their associated breweries is a common subject of interest in a town or village.
The Society had a project to investigate and record local pub buildings. The records and template worksheets are available on this site. These could very useful to anyone carrying out a similar exercise in your locality.
