Thursday 12th November, 19:15 for 19:30, Zoom only
A timeline for Neolithic Dolmen
Doug Stuckey
Placing Dolmen in the monument construction sequence of the British Neolithic period and how some were re-purposed. Following on from last years talk on Neolithic Monuments which did not include british Dolmen.
Register for this Zoom meeting Here .
Saturday November 14th 14:00 : Parish Church Patrons: supporting your church and saving your soul in Medieval England
St Thomas, at St Mary’s, Drayton Beauchamp
Speaker: Eleanor Townsend (D Phil student University of Oxford, previously curatorial roles at the V&A)
England’s medieval parish churches were once saturated with imagery, which has almost all been subsequently destroyed. Each image was paid for by someone, to beautify their church, but also in the hope of saving their souls after death . By exploring the different types of image once ubiquitous in our parish churches, and the people responsible for them, this lecture will unlock a lost world.
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
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Buckinghamshire’s
first feminist poet
The life of SARAH FYGE EGERTON 1668-1723
Sarah Fyge Egerton published a long feminist poem at the age of seventeen in defiance of her father ‒ who then exiled her from her London home. Her response was to write that ‘My daring pen will bolder sallies make, and like my self, an uncheck’d freedom take.’
Sarah lived most of her life in Buckinghamshire at Shenley, Adstock and finally Winslow. This new book by DAVID NOY reveals a woman struggling against the constraints imposed by family, gender and economic position, making bold stabs at independence yet forced to settle for ultimately unsatisfactory compromises. First edition published in April 2026.
Buckinghamshire Archaeological society
Saturday May 9th BAS AGM
(after the AGM): Publication of the BAS Deeds Catalogue
Speaker: Chris Low
The 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).
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 Buckinghamshire Heritage Portal . 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.