CHESS VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGICAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Monthly lecture. Andy McGrandle
Friday, 15th November 2019 at 8pm Chesham Town Hall – All welcome Members £2 / Non-members £4
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Marlow, Presentations Sept, Oct and November 2019
Roman Roads in Britain, by PADDY LAMBERT, Oxford Archaeology East. Thursday 24th October 2019 at 8pm in MAIN HALL, LISTON HALL, MARLOW SL7 1DD
The Roman road network in Britain is the epitome of Roman civilisation, bringing trade and opening Britain to an empire that stretched from the cold winds of Scotland to the decadence of the orient. They remain one of the most enduring of archaeological legacies. Yet, they are still shrouded in myth and misconception.
The real story of the roads and where they eventually lead us is more surprising and much more interesting.
It’s not ‘what the Romans did for us’ – it’s how they did it.
PAY AT THE DOOR: Visitors: £4.50 Members MAS/AiM: £3.00 Students: £1.50
Free car parking adjacent after 7pm Disabled access Enquiries, including membership and fieldwork: 01628 523896 www.marlowarchaeology.org/
Archaeology in Marlow, Thursday 14th November 2019 at 8pm, Liston Hall, Marlow SL7 1DD
Beacons of the Past
Dr Ed Peveler – Chiltern Conservation Board, Lidar survey of the Chilterns.
AIM and MAS members £3.00, non-members £4.50.
Centre for Bucks Studies Newletter July 2019
Marlow Archaeology, Anglo-Saxon Estates and Defences
Marlow Archaeology THURSDAY 12 September 2019 at 8pm Liston Hall, Marlow SL7 1DD
Anglo-Saxon Estates and Defences
Dr Ryan Lavelle– Reader in Early Medieval History, University of Winchester (joint talk MAS/AiM)
Pay at the door: Members of MAS/AiM £3, Visitors £4.50, full-time students £1.50
RECORDS OF BUCKS 2019 EDITION now available.
Records of Bucks (volume 59) includes articles on newly-discovered Romanesque wall painting at St Mary’s Church, Old Linslade, the effects of the Wars of the Roses on Chesham, and Marlow’s medieval manor hall.
For full list of contents and ordering.
Price to non-members: £15.00, plus £3.50 for post and packing. Members receive Records volume 59 free – so why not JOIN THE SOCIETY?
Robert Penson Lecture in Garden History, Oxford, 25 June
The Robert Penson Lecture in Garden History is at St John’s College, Oxford, on Tuesday 25 June 2019 at 5.15 pm. The lecture will be held in The Auditorium, Garden Quadrangle, St John’s College. It will be followed by a reception at which all are welcome.
Speaker: Mr Michael Lear, Curator and Landscape Architect (Lear Associates) and Trustee, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Title: ‘How can a knowledge of plants inform garden history?‘
The lecture is free and open to all.
For further information see: https://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/events/robert-penson-lecture-garden-history/
Old Canal swingbridge foundations
Swing Bridge abutment
narrow path into the bank
Earlier today members of the BAS Active Archaeology Group visited the south abutment of the old swing bridge at White Houses on the Wendover arm canal. The bridge has been missing for over a hundred years and the only image does not give much clue as to its physical dimensions. Our excavation today attempted to find the platform on which the bridge would swing. We did not find a platform but a narrow brick path leading into the bank. We will discuss with the Wendover Arm trust what to do next.
Geophysical survey at Boveney Church
On Sunday, 27 January 2019, members of the BAS Active Archaeology Group assisted Kris Lockyear and his team from the Community Archaeology Geophysics Group in a 
survey of the church yard of St Mary Magdalene at Boveney near Eton. The church dates back to the 14th-century and is the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches. There is debate about whether its churchyard was or was not used for burials and they asked whether a geophysical survey could resolve this. We will update this post when the survey results are published.
University of Cambridge reveals ‘changing face of UK’ in aerial photos
A news item from the BBC:
A collection of aerial photographs described as the “historical Google Earth” has been made available online by the University of Cambridge. RAF pilots were asked to capture the bom
b-scarred post-war period to the emergence of motorways and new cities. The collection dates back to 1945, with more recent images captured in 2009 for a university project. The first 1500 images of 0.5million are now available on the Cambridge Digital Library http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/ including this one of Dorchester on Thames in 1948.
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.