Author: Doug Stuckey

Saturday Lecture

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Saturday October 10th 2026 14:00: Maids Moreton, a North Buckinghamshire village
Maids Moreton, LectureSpeaker: Julian Hunt (BAS President)

Maids Moreton is adjacent to and often overshadowed by Buckingham and Stowe. It stands out in Domesday Book as one of the few estates where an Englishman retained his land. It also features in the Hundred Rolls of 1279 when a large estate belonged to John Peover, whose family are credited with re-building the fine Perpendicular church there. Much of the land was later owned by All Souls College, whose 1595 map of the parish is a cartographical masterpiece. Comparing this map with the 1803 Maids Moreton enclosure map gives us a valuable insight into the evolution of the present-day North Buckinghamshire landscape.

Please come to the Discover Bucks Museum or Register now for the online lecture Here  (We will email the Zoom meeting invitation to you).

Summer Outing – Hodgemoor Woods

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Two walks around Hodgemoor Woods

Led by Nigel and Janet Rothwell

 

Hodgemoor woods

Sunday 23rd August 2026, 10.00-13.00 and 14.00-17.00 – Hodgemoor Woods – The Hodgemoor walk is on rougher woodland paths, which can be muddy if wet, and is about 3.5km.  Both walks are now fully booked, Sorry
 
 
The walks are arranged as part of the extended CBA ‘Festival of Archaeology’ and are also advertised on their web site.  Each walk is limited to 22 people. There is a charge of £5 for non BAS members.

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The Life of Sarah Egerton, book by David Noy

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Sarah Egerton

‘My daring pen, will bolder sallies make, and like my self, an uncheck’d freedom take.’

The writer of those words did her best to live up to them. She published a long feminist poem at the age of seventeen in defiance of her father ‒ who then exiled her from her London home. Her life story reveals a woman struggling against the constraints imposed by family, gender and economic position, making bold stabs at independence and forced to settle for ultimately unsatisfactory compromises.

Sarah lived most of her life in Buckinghamshire at Shenley, Adstock and finally Winslow. Her poetry, rediscoved in the 1970s, brings together her personal experience with rallying cries to women. In this book David Noy combines the autobiographical nature of Sarah’s poetry with historical research to tell her life story.

  • 288-page paperback, with 37 colour illustrations, maps and poems | cover price £16
  • Post and Packaging £3.90 (UK), options available for Canada/USA and Australia

Your can purchase a copy Here

BAS AGM and Lecture 2026

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Saturday May 9th BAS AGM

(after the AGM):  Publication of the BAS Deeds Catalogue
Speaker:  Chris Low

 

BAS Deeds CatalogueThe BAS AGM will start at 14:00 with the Lecture to follow at circa 14:35.  The AGM and Lecture will be one Zoom session.  The head count for the AGM will be taken at 14:00.

 

 

Please come to the Discover Bucks Museum or Register now for the online lecture Here  (We will email the Zoom meeting invitation to you).

BAS AAG evening meetings

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Thursday 15th October 2026 19:15 for 19:30, Zoom
Wogan Cavern excavations 2026 (Pembroke Castle)

Wogan Cavern Pembroke

Wogan Cavern

Simon Binns.  (BAS AAG member)

Simon was invited to join this prestigious multi-year dig under Pembroke Castle, where the medieval walling up of a cave beneath the castle – and a layer of stalagmite – have preserved occupation evidence over 6,000 years old.  He will relay his experience of being with professors, students and castle visiting public.

 

Register for this Zoom meeting Here .

 

BAS Saturday Lecture (online)

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Saturday 9 October:  From Cuneiform to Codex
Speaker: Michael Ghirelli, Editor of the BAS Newsletter
CuneiformThe earliest books were written by impressing signs on flat squares of soft clay that were then baked hard under the sun.

 

 

 

 

 

Register now for this online lecture Here  (We will email the Zoom meeting invitation to you).

 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.

Hs2 conference-on-the-web has audience of 200+

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HS2 Conference online

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.