BAS AAG evening meetings

Thursday 8th May
Further excavations at Old Linslade Holy Well

Paul Tate

Linslade mapFinds and interpretation of the ongoing excavation at Old Linslade, in search of a historically recorded Holy well by members of LBDAHS.

 

 

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(ish)

 

Saturday Lecture

Saturday May 10th (after the AGM):  Thomas Jefferson and John Adams tour of English Gardens in 1786.
Speaker and AGM Chair:  Julian Hunt (BAS President)
Thomas JeffersonThe BAS AGM will start at 14:00 with the Lecture to follow at circa 14:45.  The AGM and Lecture will be one Zoom session.  The head count for the AGM will be taken at 14:00.

Please note the 2pm start time

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

Tea and Coffee will be available as will the BAS pre-loved book stall. Records of Bucks Vol 65 should be available for distribution at the AGM.

Summer Outing – Seer Green/Jordans/Taplow

Taplow Court

Sunday 8th September, a group visit to the Taplow Court Heritage Open Day with Sarah Gray

Register for this excursion Here.

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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A series of walks around Seer Green, Hodgemoor Woods  and Jordans 

Led by Nigel and Janet Rothwell

Saturday 20th July, 10.00-12.00 and 14.00-16.00 – Seer Green –  The Seer Green walks are each about 2.5km, mostly pavement, but some short stretches of woodland path.
 
Sunday 21st July, 10.00-13.00 and 14.00-17.00 – Hodgemoor WoodsThe Hodgemoor walk is on rougher woodland paths, which can be muddy if wet, and is about 3.5km
 
Saturday 27th July, 14.00-16.30 – Jordans –  The Jordans walk is about 2.5km, mostly pavement, but some short stretches of woodland path, and has one field stile.
 
The walks are arranged as part of the CBA ‘Festival of Archaeology’ and are also advertised on their web site.  Each walk is limited to 20 people. There is a charge of £5 for non BAS members
More details and booking for each walk can be found Here
 

BAS Saturday Lecture (online)

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 2.30pmLasting about one hour plus time for discussion.  Refreshments are available after the event.

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

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.