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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.
Buy our recent publications on-line
Now you can buy the society’s most recent publications on-line
via this website. Follow the links below…
Pots, Potters and Potteries
of Buckinghamshire 1200-1910
October 2019
Records of Buckinghamshire 59
May 2019
Wulfhere’s People:
Excavations at Wolverton
November 2018
Excavations at Missenden
Abbey 1983-88
May 2018
My Dearest Ben:
Disraeli through his letters
February 2018
Toll Roads of Buckinghamshire
1706-1881
September 2017
Just published by the Bucks Archaeological Society
This new book brings together, in an easily accessible form, information from all currently known archaeological and documentary sources about the 700-year history of pottery production sites and potters across Buckinghamshire, gathering excavation reports, field names, parish records and national censuses alike to portray a once-important Buckinghamshire industry.
Pots, Potters and Potteries
of Buckinghamshire 1200-1910.
Published October 2019.
HS2 Archaeology Conference – 2020
HS2 Archaeology –
This meeting will now take place via an online webinar (same date and time). You will be able to access the meeting from your home via the device you use for the internet. Invitation instructions will follow once they have been confirmed.
CONFERENCE ORGANISED BY THE BUCKS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
on Saturday 4 April at Winslow Public Hall, Elmsfield Gate, MK18 3JG. 1pm-5pm, £3 on the door. The county’s biggest archaeological dig, on the route of the high-speed rail line, is turning up various unexpected settlements. From Mesolithic to Medieval plus a complex area under investigation in Warwickshire. Speakers from the HS2 (Fusion) Archaeology team.
- Download Leaflet with full details that you can print locally.
- View the society’s work on archaeology along the HS2 line.
- View HS2’s own website on the archaeology of the line.
Recording History of Pubs and Breweries.
The history of the local pubs and their associated breweries is a common subject of interest in a town or village.
The Society had a project to investigate and record local pub buildings. The records and template worksheets are available on this site. These could very useful to anyone carrying out a similar exercise in your locality.
New Publication – Wulfhere’s People
Excavation report from the 2008 mid-Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Radcliffe School, Wolverton. A4 Paperback, 155 pp, 120 illustrations, Price £18 + £2 p&p. Contact BAS at help@bucksas.org.uk to obtain a copy.
The site contained eighty-one inhumation burials and two cremations, accompanied by a wide range of grave goods. This cemetery, the largest of its type in Buckinghamshire to date, is probably linked with the nearby Saxon settlement at Wolverton Mill, predecessor of the modern Wolverton (in Saxon , Wulfheres Tün – ‘Wulfhere’s estate’).