Stewkley Church: a journey through 900 years

Stewkley ChurchThe village of Stewkley has a very fine example of a Norman church, keeping its primary architecture through 900 years of change. A ticketed illustrated talk as part of church fund raising is scheduled for Friday 15 March at 7.30pm, including refreshments .

Tickets will be £10 and can be ordered from the contact details on the image, payment by cash, BACS transfer to the PCC or by card through ‘Givey’.

BAS Saturday Lecture

Saturday March 9th from 2:15pm:
Sarsen Stone Quarrying in Sothern Britain

Speaker: Dr Katy Whitaker

Focussed sarsen lectureon a vanished industry in Buckinghamshire and Wiltshire, as published by Katy in the journal for Post medieval archaeology.  A guest of the Bucks Geological Group. 

You may be familiar with sarsen stone at Stonehenge and Avebury in Wiltshire, in the form of huge boulders used to make the stone circles. But in southern England, sarsen boulders and cobbles have been used in many different ways for the past 4,500 years. 

This Lecture will be presented at 14:30 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).

BAS AAG evening meetings

Thursday 14th March 2024 19:30
Orkney Archaeology

Splectureeaker Dr David Saunders (BAS Council Member)

A look at some of the amazing discoveries from prehistoric Orkney.

David will review his time on Orkney engaged with the fascinating Archaeology from these islands.

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.

 

BLHN Conference 2023


Our thanks to all those that attended this entertaining and informative conference. Special thanks to all those that presented, provided stands, organised and assisted.

The conference confirmed the value of the local list and recognised the effort put in by Bucks Council staff and many volunteers to nominate (over 3000 nominations), visit, assess and approve the list.

You can see the evolving list Here

Historic documents cataloguing appeal raises £2,455

The society’s recent appeal for funds to complete the cataloguing of the BAS deeds collection of over 11,000 documents has raised £2,455 – and we will be able to add to this by reclaiming tax under the Gift Aid scheme.

So thanks are due to all who have donated. The fund will be sent to the Bucks Records Society, who are funding the work at Buckinghamshire Archive. The new catalogue will make the document collection accessible for research.

If you have not yet donated you can still do so by clicking here.