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.
Author: Doug Stuckey
Newsletter
Newsletter March 2025
The societies latest newsletter is available online
(and can be downloaded) Here
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BAS AAG evening meetings
Thursday 8th May
Further excavations at Old Linslade Holy Well
Paul Tate
Finds 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)
The 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 Woods – The 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
Buckinghamshire’s Heritage Portal
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
BAS Saturday Lecture (online)
Saturday 9 October: From Cuneiform to Codex
Speaker: Michael Ghirelli, Editor of the BAS Newsletter
The 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+
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.
- You can read the full conference-on-the-web report here.
- View earlier BAS reports on archaeological sites affected by HS2 here.
The online conference was recorded. We will try and bring you a link to it as soon as we can.
Professor’s talk on hillforts draws 180 to Amersham
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