A series of walks around Seer Green, Hodgemoor Woods and Jordans
Led by Nigel and Janet Rothwell
A series of walks around Seer Green, Hodgemoor Woods and Jordans
Led by Nigel and Janet Rothwell
Thursday 9th May 2024 19:30
Signposts from the Past; Etymology of local Place Names
Speaker Matt Carroll (LBDAHS)
Unravelling the past through place names.
Register for this meeting Here if you want to attend via zoom, otherwise please come to the Museum.
We will open the Museum (back gate) at 19:00.
Meeting agenda published in the 2024 Spring Newsletter
Lucy will update us on the results of excavations by HS2 (2021/22) and further geophysics by YAC members on this extensive (but enigmatic) Chilterns monument in 2023.
The AGM will start at 14:00 and the lecture will start after the AGM (circa 14:45) all on the same Zoom session.
This AGM and Lecture will be in the Learning Zone at Discover Bucks Museum (Aylesbury) and will be streamed from there.
Please come to the Discover Bucks Museum or Register now for the online lecture Here (We will email the Zoom meeting invitation to you).
The societies latest newsletter is available online
(and can be downloaded) Here
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
Click on the poster to access the booking site.
Website: www.lbdahs.org.uk
Email: lbdahsofficial@gmail.com
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