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 work at Stowe House
Speaker: Anna McEvoy (Stowe House Preservation)
Stowe House restoration and preservation project has worked for many years on this historic house. Restoring gardens, Architecture and uncovering important 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 talk by Professor Barry Cunliffe, acknowledged expert of the Iron Age, was attended by around 180 people in Amersham last Saturday. For full details click here
Thursday 6th February 2020, 8.00 p.m.
Kings, Power and Conversion in Anglo-Saxon England
Dr Gabor Thomas (Reading University), new archaeological perspectives from the Kingdom of Kent.
Main Hall, Liston Hall, Chapel Street, Marlow, SL7 1DD. Members of AIM& MAS £3.00, non-member £4.50, students £1.50
Thursday 20th February 2020, 8.00 p.m.
The Archaeology of HS2 in Buckinghamshire
Lucy Lawrence (Bucks County Council Archaeology Officer) will outline how the Archaeology of HS2 is helping to answer some longstanding questions about the development and use of this historic landscape.
In the Garden Room, Liston Hall, Chapel Street, Marlow, SL7 1DD. Members of AIM& MAS £3.00, non-member £4.50
