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Thursday 24th October: Professor Mike Parker Pearson, University College, London, Institute of Archaeology, will give a lecture on ‘Prehistoric Henges, Stonehenge, and Norton Henge’ at the Spirella Ballroom, Spirella Building, Bridge Road, Letchworth Garden City, 7 for 7.30pm. Organised by Norton Community Archaeology Group. To book your free tickets, contact philthomas-ncag
Monday 11th November: our very own, Mark Stevenson, kindly sent me the following information and link:
11/11/2013 – Venice in Peril – ‘Flying Lions and Marble Marvels’, a talk about the Venice in Peril Fund by its Chairman, Jonathan Keates, at the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, 6.30 for 7pm, entry by ticket only, with reception afterwards included in the price, £25. http://www.veniceinperil.org/events/ashley-clarke-memorial-lecture-2013
Monday 25th November, 4pm: NHAS committee member, Lesley Blundell, kindly contacted me regarding a presentation by Drs. Kris Lockyear and Ellen Shasko, on their Hertfordshire Geophysical Surveys of Iron Age and Roman sites:
“Hi Gil
I guess Kris Lockyear might already have told you about this, but in
case he has not it might be of interest to NHAS members to know that he and Ellen Shasko will be giving one of the Institute of Archaeology
research seminars on 25th November at 4.00pm in room 612 of the
Institute of Archaeology. These are open to the public and the topic is
‘Community archaeology, geophysics and the Roman settlements of
Hertfordshire’ so I guess he’ll be talking about sites in which some of
our members have been involved.
Details of this and the other seminars in the series are available at
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/calendar/articles/20131125
Regards
Lesley”
For Kris and Ellen and their volunteers’ recent geophysical survey results from Ashwell End (Bluegates Farm), and elsewhere (Braughing, Verulamium, Watton-at-Stone), to date, check out: http://hertsgeosurvey.wordpress.com/
Friday 29th November: ‘The Story of our Village: Pirton’, NHAS and Pirton Local History Group members, Georgina Brakenbury and Helen Hofton, reporting on a University of Cambridge-backed project that they have been conducting for the past year, recording a selection of historic houses and their archaeology. 7.30pm at Methodist Chapel, High St, Pirton. Details from helen_hofton
December, date and venue to be arranged: Members evening with cheese & wine, etc. We need a volunteer to give a short presentation on a subject of interest to members?
January, date and venue to be arranged: ‘Norton Henge and the Prehistory of the Baldock Basin – new views’, by Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews, NHDC Archaeology Officer.
February, date and venue to be arranged: ‘Community archaeology, geophysics and the Roman settlements of Hertfordshire’, by Drs. Kris Lockyear and Ellen Shasko, Institute of Archaeology, University of London. Here’s another chance to hear about this important project if you can’t get to London in November, and it’ll bring their survey results up to date.
Exhibitions:
The British Museum –
Beyond El Dorado
power and gold
in ancient Colombia
Organised with Museo del Oro
17 October 2013 – 23 March 2014
BM Members free/Open late Fridays
If you’re interested in news of the latest discoveries from around the world, visit this website:
Heritage Daily – Latest Archaeology News and Archaeological Press Releases
Egyptology, Aztecs, Ancient History, Anthropology, Incas, Greeks, Romans, Chinese, etc.
STOP PRESS:
Our President, Francis Pryor, has sent me this great news about the publication of his thriller/detective novel:
Dear Gilbert
HOORAY! We’ve done it. The Lifers’ Club has reached its minimum target and will now certainly be published. In the meantime I and those clever folks at Unbound have got several things to do: designing, editing and producing the book. To find out what we’re all up to you can visit my Shed at the Unbound website (and they’re going to teach me how to update it all by myself!!!).
All this is going to take time, and while we’re doing it we’ll still be able to enlist any further subscribers here. If you’d like to increase your current pledge level to include further goodies, then please do so by clicking on the upgrade options, listed below your current pledge level here. All new names will, of course, be listed in the back of the book until we close the subscribers’ list to move onto the next step.
I’m now a convert to crowd-funding. Never before have I established such a strong link with my readership as I have with this project – and the book hasn’t even been printed! Later I’ll be appearing at book festivals and book-signings and I VERY much hope we’ll be able to meet in person, if I don’t know you already. I’ll be publishing full contact details in my Shed.
Thank you so much for backing The Lifers’ Club. And I hope it gives you at least one sleepless night…
All the best,
Francis.
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SUBSCRIPTIONS
2013/14 Subscriptions became due on 1st June 2013. Please renew now. The Society cannot continue to function without all members’ subscriptions. In particular, lecturers fees and expenses and hall hire have to come from subscriptions. Lack of sufficient income from subscriptions may result in fewer lectures. It’s up to us members.
Outstanding subscriptions may be paid in person at any meeting when membership cards can usually be issued also. Otherwise subscription cheques may be posted to Diane Burleigh, NHAS, 10 Cromwell Way, Pirton, Hitchin, Herts SG5 3RD.
Adult £15, Family £20, Concessions (over 65, under 16), £8.
Subscriptions for 2014/15 onwards were raised by a vote at the AGM last May. As from
1st June 2014: Adult £19, Family £24, Concessions £10
Non-members are welcome at any of our meetings. There will be a charge of £3 for entry.
Please renew your subscription otherwise you may be removed from our membership and circulation lists.
Thank you.
Dear Members and Friends,
Kath Welch (1927-2013)
It is with great sadness that we report the death of our very long-standing Member, Kath Welch. Kath and her husband, Roy (died 2009), were loyal members of the North Hertfordshire Archaeological Society from its earliest days, joining at the beginning of the 1960s. For several decades they were amongst our most active and dedicated members, taking part in all fieldwork and other activities, and serving for many years as keen Committee members.
They enthusiastically volunteered on our excavations at Blackhorse Road and Wilbury during the 1960s; Jack’s Hill, Coombe Bottom and the Mile Ditches in the 1970s; and Baldock in the 1980s, to give just a few examples. I believe their last dig was with Heritage Network at the rear of the Fox, Pirton, in 1995. They were regular and interested visitors to the Senuna excavations in Ashwell, 2003-2006. Over that period of 30 plus years, when volunteers were being sought, Kath and Roy were always amongst the most reliable and hard-working. In later years, when their energies were not perhaps what they once were, we could always count on them to help out with practicalities at meetings, such as setting out chairs, serving tea and coffee, and washing-up. They were invaluable.
From this you gather that Kath and Roy came as a team. They were inseparable, having married in 1945. Some years ago, the Society made them both Honorary Members in recognition of their long service and loyalty.
One of the most endearing things about Kath, like Roy, was her quick sense of humour. They could always see the funny side ofany situation. Their innocent humour enlivened many a day’s digging, fieldwalking, potwashing, or outing, and caused both us and them to have a good chuckle as they kept us all amused. They were an excellent tonic for team spirit, for instance, when the digging got difficult or the weather was wet, cold or otherwise inclement. We shall miss her humour, down-to-earth common sense, and kindness, very much indeed.
After Roy died in 2009, Kath continued to live in Sish Lane, Stevenage, in their home since 1947.
Kath died on Wednesday 2nd October and her funeral will be held this Wednesday 16th October in Stevenage (details below). Kath was 86. Our deepest sympathies and condolences go to her family at their sad and great loss.
Kath digging on the Mile Ditches, near Royston, March 1978
Kath at The Tene, Baldock, April 1978
IWA members and NHAS Committee members Lesley Blundell and Liz Hunter have kindly brought to our attention the following event based in Pirton:
ICKNIELD WAY ASSOCIATION:
A Joint Event with the Edward Thomas Fellowship
is being held on September 28th and 29th
Celebrating the Centenary of The Icknield Wayby Edward Thomas
This event is jointly organised by The Icknield Way Association and The Edward Thomas Fellowship and will take place on Saturday 28th September and Sunday 29th September. The proposed programme (subject to change) is as follows:
| Saturday 28th September | |
| 10.00am-10.30am | Arrival at the Pirton Sports and Social Club, our base for the day.
Address is The Recreation Ground, Walnut Tree Road, Pirton, Hitchin SG5 3PX, |
| 10.30am-12.30pm | Walk led by IWA starting at Pirton and going to Deacon Hill and back along the Icknield Way. Approximately four miles with shorter options if desired. Ending at Pirton SSC. |
| 1.00pm-2.00pm | “Platter” buffet lunch in Pirton SSC. A bar will be available or, for those who prefer, there are two nearby pubs in Pirton, The Motte and Bailey www.themotteandbaileypirton.com and The Fox www.pirton.org.uk/thefox/ |
| 2.00pm-2.50pm | Key speaker: Hugh Thomson, author of “The Green Road into the Trees: a Walk through England” |
| 2.50pm-3.10pm | Talk by Richard Emeny, Chair of The Edward Thomas Fellowship: “Edward Thomas, Walking and the Icknield Way” |
| 3.10pm-3.30pm | Talk on the Great Stones Way by Ian Ritchie, Chairman, Friends of the Ridgeway |
| 3.30pm-4.00pm | Tea |
| 4.00pm-4.30pm | The Icknield Way, a film produced by Luisetta Mudie |
| 4.30pm-5.00pm | IWA will hold its formal AGM |
| Evening: | A meal can be arranged at The Motte and Bailey. A reply slip to indicate interest accompanies this programme and for those wishing to join the evening meal, menu choices can be made in the morning of the event |
| Sunday 29th September | |
| 10.00am-12.00pm | Walk on the Icknield Way with readings from Edward Thomas en route organised by ETF. |
Please complete the Booking Form (click here) and return to Chris James as soon as possible and by 21st September at the latest
Greyfriars, Leicester and the Search for Richard III
Friday 4 October – 7:30pm
An illustrated talk by Richard Buckley (Director of Archaeological Services, University of Leicester) at the Broadway Cinema, LGC.
Tickets available now from: David’s Bookshop 01462 684631, the Tourist Information Centre, or the Broadway Cinema, LGC. £4 [LALG
members]; £5 [non-members]; free to children and full-time students [21 and
under].
Organised by Letchworth Arts & Leisure Group; sponsored by Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation.
Contact Details:
Kate Thompson: 01462 621248; kathryn.thompson.
Saturday 12th October: coach trip to autumn fair at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, Sussex. Organised by Welwyn Archaeological Society. Kris Lockyear, WAS Chairman, has kindly invited NHAS members to join them. Details from noviodunum
Hi Gil.
WAS is running a trip to the autumn fair at the Weald and Downland Museum on the 12th October. Would it be possible to advertise the trip to your members via your email list? We need to sell more tickets to make it viable.
Thanks, Kris
Thursday 24th October, 8pm: Professor Mike Parker Pearson, University College, London, Institute of Archaeology, will give a lecture on ‘Prehistoric Henges’ at the Spirella Ballroom, Letchworth Garden City. Organised by Norton Community Archaeology Group. Chris Hobbs, Chairman of NCAG, has now kindly extended this invitation to NHAS members.
Hi Gil,
It was good to catch up on the phone and I’m glad you got to see the site. The dig this summer has certainly been spectacular and beyond anything we could have imagined. We now have a major challenge on our hands! – Processing 13,000 Neolithic finds individually is also way beyond what we anticipated!
We had another visit from Mike Parker-Pearson. There are many parallels between Norton and Stonehenge. As you know Mike will deliver a presentation on the subject of Neolithic monuments, Stonehenge and draw parallels with our findings in Norton. We would like to invite as many NHAS members as is possible. There is a large overlap in membership so we should be ok but we may have to restrict numbers as mentioned. Please do circulate this and please do let Philip Thomas, our Secretary know: philthomas-ncag how many tickets you need by the 29th September please. We will do our very best to accommodate all requests. – It’s at the Spirella Ballroom: Spirella Building: Letchworth on Thursday 24th of October 2013 at 7.00pm for 7:30pm. A bar is available from 7.00pm.
I look forward to seeing you.
Kind regards.
Chris Hobbs.
Chairman: Norton Community Archaeology Group
Today I have received this further email from Chris:
Hi Gil,
The Heritage Foundation who are funding two thirds of this event will be putting an open invitation in The Comet this Thursday. This isn’t quite as we anticipated things but we will still be managing the tickets!
Please do let us know ASAP just how many tickets you require as we are very keen that NHAS members do get chance to join us.
Kind regards.
Chris.
In view of the fact that tickets will be advertised publicly from this Thursday (19th Sept.), I urge members to email direct NCAG contact Phil Thomas at the address above to book your tickets (free). Mention that you are a member of NHAS.
Exhibitions:
The British Museum –
Life and death:
Pompeii and Herculaneum
28 March – 29 September 2013
Tickets on sale
If you’re interested in news of the latest discoveries from around the world, visit this website:
Heritage Daily – Latest Archaeology News and Archaeological Press Releases
Egyptology, Aztecs, Ancient History, Anthropology, Incas, Greeks, Romans, Chinese, etc.
STOP PRESS:
Our President, Francis Pryor, has just sent me this great news about the publication of his thriller/detective novel:
Dear Gilbert
HOORAY! We’ve done it. The Lifers’ Club has reached its minimum target and will now certainly be published. In the meantime I and those clever folks at Unbound have got several things to do: designing,
editing and producing the book. To find out what we’re all up to you can visit my Shed at the Unbound website (and they’re going to teach me how to update it all by myself!!!).
All this is going to take time, and while we’re doing it we’ll still be able to enlist any further subscribers here. If you’d like to increase your current pledge level to include further goodies, then please do so by clicking on the upgrade options, listed below your current pledge level here. All new names will, of course, be listed in the back of the book until we close the subscribers’ list to move onto the next step.
I’m now a convert to crowd-funding. Never before have I established such a strong link with my readership as I have with this project – and the book hasn’t even been printed! Later I’ll be appearing at book festivals and book-signings and I VERY much hope we’ll be able to meet in person, if I don’t know you already. I’ll be publishing full contact details in my Shed.
Thank you so much for backing The Lifers’ Club. And I hope it gives you at least one sleepless night…
All the best,
Francis.
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SUBSCRIPTIONS
2013/14 Subscriptions became due on 1st June 2013. Please renew now. The Society cannot continue to function without all members’ subscriptions. In particular, lecturers fees and expenses and hall hire have to come from subscriptions. Lack of sufficient income from subscriptions may result in fewer lectures. It’s up to us members.
Outstanding subscriptions may be paid in person at any meeting when membership cards can usually be issued also. Otherwise subscription cheques may be posted to Diane Burleigh, NHAS, 10 Cromwell Way, Pirton, Hitchin, Herts SG5 3RD.
Adult £15, Family £20, Concessions (over 65, under 16), £8.
Subscriptions for 2014/15 onwards were raised by a vote at the AGM last May. As from
1st June 2014: Adult £19, Family £24, Concessions £10
Non-members are welcome at any of our meetings. There will be a charge of £3 for entry.
Please renew your subscription otherwise you may be removed from our membership and circulation lists.
Thank you.
Saturday 14th, 1pm to midnight & Sunday 15th September, 1pm to 5pm: Caldecote 11th century Church near Ashwell – Open Days with live classical and jazz music and cream teas. To raise funds for the repair of the tower. See attached poster.
Caldecote Church Friends
Patron: The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Caldecote
Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Caldecote
www.caldecotechurchfriends.org.uk
COME ALONG – AND BRING YOUR FRIENDS!
If you are unable to come, a donation to Caldecote Church Friends for the ‘Tower Roof Fund’ will be welcomed!
Enquiries / offers of help / donations / corrections to address details
to:
Kerry Rafferty,
Secretary,
1 Farm Cottages, Caldecote, Baldock, Herts. SG7 5LD
Tel: 0774230 1812
Kerry.rob
Information kindly sent by Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews.
Saturday 14th September: I have received this kind invitation from Haileybury College, Hertford:
From:
Emily Matuszczyk
e.matuszczyk
“Message:
Hello,
I saw that you are advertising the Paul Roberts Exhibition regarding
Life and Death in Pompeii. At Haileybury College on the 14th of
September at 19:30 we have him in to discuss his findings and was
wondering whether that would be of interest to you or your followers.
Kind Regards”.
The speaker is Paul Roberts, a Senior Curator in the British Museum, Department of Greece and Rome, and Head of the Roman Collections. He is the organiser and arranger of the current exhibition, ‘Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum’ at the British Museum, see below.
Paul’s particular research interests include Roman glass, pottery and bronze, trade, Pompeii and Herculaneum and the mummy portraits of Roman Egypt. More broadly he is interested in the Roman Mediterranean and has taken part in excavations in Greece, Libya and Turkey.
He has excavated widely in Italy and is particularly interested in the history and archaeology of Rome, the Bay of Naples and Sicily. Currently he has prepared the major exhibition on daily life in Pompeii and Herculaneum being held in the British Museum until 29th September 2013.
Paul studied at Cambridge University, then lived and studied in Italy for six years before returning to studies at the Universities of Sheffield and Oxford. He joined the British Museum in January 1994.
Emily has now kindly sent me the following additional information:
“Hello,
The Venue is Haileybury College, Hertford, Hertfordshire, SG13 7NU. Directions can be seen:
There is ample parking around the college which is free and the event itself is free of charge.
If your members are interested please could they book online for a ticket, so we know how many numbers we are expecting.
Kind Regards,
Emily Matuszczyk”.
ICKNIELD WAY ASSOCIATION:
A Joint Event with the Edward Thomas Fellowship
is being held on September 28th and 29th
Celebrating the Centenary of The Icknield Wayby Edward Thomas
This event is jointly organised by The Icknield Way Association and The Edward Thomas Fellowship and will take place on Saturday 28th September and Sunday 29th September. The proposed programme (subject to change) is as follows:
| Saturday 28th September | |
| 10.00am-10.30am | Arrival at the Pirton Sports and Social Club, our base for the day.
Address is The Recreation Ground, Walnut Tree Road, Pirton, Hitchin SG5 3PX, |
| 10.30am-12.30pm | Walk led by IWA starting at Pirton and going to Deacon Hill and back along the Icknield Way. Approximately four miles with shorter options if desired. Ending at Pirton SSC. |
| 1.00pm-2.00pm | “Platter” buffet lunch in Pirton SSC. A bar will be available or, for those who prefer, there are two nearby pubs in Pirton, The Motte and Bailey www.themotteandbaileypirton.com and The Fox www.pirton.org.uk/thefox/ |
| 2.00pm-2.50pm | Key speaker: Hugh Thomson, author of “The Green Road into the Trees: a Walk through England” |
| 2.50pm-3.10pm | Talk by Richard Emeny, Chair of The Edward Thomas Fellowship: “Edward Thomas, Walking and the Icknield Way” |
| 3.10pm-3.30pm | Talk on the Great Stones Way by Ian Ritchie, Chairman, Friends of the Ridgeway |
| 3.30pm-4.00pm | Tea |
| 4.00pm-4.30pm | The Icknield Way, a film produced by Luisetta Mudie |
| 4.30pm-5.00pm | IWA will hold its formal AGM |
| Evening: | A meal can be arranged at The Motte and Bailey. A reply slip to indicate interest accompanies this programme and for those wishing to join the evening meal, menu choices can be made in the morning of the event |
| Sunday 29th September | |
| 10.00am-12.00pm | Walk on the Icknield Way with readings from Edward Thomas en route organised by ETF. |
Please complete the Booking Form (click here) and return to Chris James as soon as possible and by 21st September at the latest
Greyfriars, Leicester and the Search for Richard III
Friday 4 October – 7:30pm
An illustrated talk by Richard Buckley (Director of Archaeological Services, University of Leicester) at the Broadway Cinema, LGC.
Tickets available now from: David’s Bookshop 01462 684631, the Tourist Information Centre, or the Broadway Cinema, LGC. £4 [LALG
members]; £5 [non-members]; free to children and full-time students [21 and
under].
Organised by Letchworth Arts & Leisure Group; sponsored by Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation.
Contact Details:
Kate Thompson: 01462 621248; kathryn.thompson.
Thursday 24th October, 8pm: Professor Mike Parker Pearson, University College, London, Institute of Archaeology, will give a lecture on ‘Prehistoric Henges’ at the Spirella Ballroom, Letchworth Garden City. Organised by Norton Community Archaeology Group. Further details to be circulated later.
Exhibitions:
The British Museum –
Life and death:
Pompeii and Herculaneum
28 March – 29 September 2013
Tickets on sale
If you’re interested in news of the latest discoveries from around the world, visit this website:
Heritage Daily – Latest Archaeology News and Archaeological Press Releases
Egyptology, Aztecs, Ancient History, Anthropology, Incas, Greeks, Romans, Chinese, etc.
STOP PRESS:
Our President, Francis Pryor, has just sent me this great news about the publication of his thriller/detective novel:
Dear Gilbert
HOORAY! We’ve done it. The Lifers’ Club has reached its minimum target and will now certainly be published. In the meantime I and those clever folks at Unbound have got several things to do: designing, editing and producing the book. To find out what we’re all up to you can visit my Shed at the Unbound website (and they’re going to teach me how to update it all by myself!!!).
All this is going to take time, and while we’re doing it we’ll still be able to enlist any further subscribers here. If you’d like to increase your current pledge level to include further goodies, then please do so by clicking on the upgrade options, listed below your current pledge level here. All new names will, of course, be listed in the back of the book until we close the subscribers’ list to move onto the next step.
I’m now a convert to crowd-funding. Never before have I established such a strong link with my readership as I have with this project – and the book hasn’t even been printed! Later I’ll be appearing at book festivals and book-signings and I VERY much hope we’ll be able to meet in person, if I don’t know you already. I’ll be publishing full contact details in my Shed.
Thank you so much for backing The Lifers’ Club. And I hope it gives you at least one sleepless night…
All the best,
Francis.
Follow Unbound on Twitter
Friend Unbound on Facebook
SUBSCRIPTIONS
2013/14 Subscriptions became due on 1st June 2013. Please renew now. The Society cannot continue to function without all members’ subscriptions. In particular, lecturers fees and expenses and hall hire have to come from subscriptions. Lack of sufficient income from subscriptions may result in fewer lectures. It’s up to us members.
Outstanding subscriptions may be paid in person at any meeting when membership cards can usually be issued also. Otherwise subscription cheques may be posted to Diane Burleigh, NHAS, 10 Cromwell Way, Pirton, Hitchin, Herts SG5 3RD.
Adult £15, Family £20, Concessions (over 65, under 16), £8.
Subscriptions for 2014/15 onwards were raised by a vote at the AGM last May. As from
1st June 2014: Adult £19, Family £24, Concessions £10
Non-members are welcome at any of our meetings. There will be a charge of £3 for entry.
Please renew your subscription otherwise you may be removed from our membership and circulation lists.
Thank you.
Ashwell End (Bluegates Farm), Great Buttway field, Geophysical Survey, Friday 16th – Sunday 18th August – led by Dr. Kris Lockyear of UCL Institute of Archaeology- contact Ellen hertsgeosurvey
RESULTS: Ignore the diagonally running prominent metal water pipe on the left. Kris’s survey team has completed an extension southwards and eastwards of the survey done in 2003-2006 by Prof. Mark Noel of the University of Durham, during our excavation of the Roman temple hoard site, with excellent results. The new area reveals more Late Iron Age pits, ditched enclosures, likely building sites, droveways, and small fields. Kris plans to return to the site in the coming weeks and months to survey more in the same and neighbouring fields.
Many thanks to Kris and Ellen, NHAS members, Brian, Graeme and Sarah, and Sarah’s Ashwell Archaeology Group volunteers, as well as the volunteers from other local societies.
Check out
hertsgeosurvey www.hertsgeosurvey.wordpress.com/author/hertsgeosurvey/ for results and blogs from Ashwell, Verulamium Park (spectacular), Braughing, etc.
Saturday 24th August, 2pm: NHAS members are kindly invited by the Norton Community Archaeology Group to the open day at this year’s dig on the increasingly interesting and important Neolithic Henge at Norton where evidence for three pre-henge Neolithic buildings has been uncovered. Guided tours by the site director, Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews. See attachment.
Magna Carta 800: St Albans 2013
A fun packed programme of music and medieval mayhem.
This summer’s Magna Carta events are inspired by the 800th anniversary of St Alban’s unique place in the history of the Magna Carta.
www.enjoystalbans.com/magnacarta
01727 864511
Magna Carta 1213-1215: The Journey Starts Here Exhibition
Museum of St Albans until 15 September
Free Entry
On view King Henry I coronation charter – the precursor to the Magna Carta
1215 Magna Carta on view at St Albans Cathedral
Saturday 3rd – Thursday 29th August
Entry by ticket
Saturday 14th, 1pm to midnight & Sunday 15th September, 1pm to 5pm: Caldecote 11th century Church near Ashwell – Open Days with live classical and jazz music and cream teas. To raise funds for the repair of the tower. See attached poster.
Caldecote Church Friends
Patron: The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Caldecote
Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Caldecote
www.caldecotechurchfriends.org.uk
PLEASE SEE EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT ATTACHED!
COME ALONG – AND BRING YOUR FRIENDS!
If you are unable to come, a donation to Caldecote Church Friends for the ‘Tower Roof Fund’ will be welcomed!
Enquiries / offers of help / donations / corrections to address details
to:
Kerry Rafferty,
Secretary,
1 Farm Cottages, Caldecote, Baldock, Herts. SG7 5LD
Tel: 0774230 1812
Kerry.rob
See also attached details of our latest booklet.
Information kindly sent by Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews.
Saturday 14th September: I have received this kind invitation from Haileybury College, Hertford:
From:
Emily Matuszczyk
e.matuszczyk
“Message:
Hello,
I saw that you are advertising the Paul Roberts Exhibition regarding
Life and Death in Pompeii. At Haileybury College on the 14th of
September at 19:30 we have him in to discuss his findings and was
wondering whether that would be of interest to you or your followers.
Kind Regards”.
The speaker is Paul Roberts, a Senior curator in the British Museum, Department of Greece and Rome, and is head of the Roman collections. He is the organiser and arranger of the current exhibition, ‘Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum’ at the British Museum, see below.
Paul’s particular research interests include Roman glass, pottery and bronze, trade, Pompeii and Herculaneum and the mummy portraits of Roman Egypt. More broadly he is interested in the Roman Mediterranean and has taken part in excavations in Greece, Libya and Turkey.
He has excavated widely in Italy and is particularly interested in the history and archaeology of Rome, the Bay of Naples and Sicily. Currently he has prepared a major exhibition on daily life in Pompeii and Herculaneum being held in the British Museum until 29th September 2013.
Paul studied at Cambridge University, then lived and studied in Italy for six years before returning to studies at the Universities of Sheffield and Oxford. He joined the British Museum in January 1994.
Emily has now kindly sent me the following additional information:
“Hello,
The Venue is Haileybury College, Hertford, Hertfordshire, SG13 7NU. Directions can be seen:
There is ample parking around the college which is free and the event itself is free of charge.
If your members are interested please could they book online for a ticket, so we know how many numbers we are expecting.
Kind Regards,
Emily Matuszczyk”.
Thursday 24th October, 8pm: Professor Mike Parker Peason, University College, London, Institute of Archaeology, will give a lecture on ‘Prehistoric Henges’ at the Spirella Ballroom, Letchworth Garden City. Organised by Norton Community Archaeology Group.
Exhibitions:
The British Museum –
Life and death:
Pompeii and Herculaneum
28 March – 29 September 2013
Tickets on sale
If you’re interested in news of the latest discoveries from around the world, visit this website:
Heritage Daily – Latest Archaeology News and Archaeological Press Releases
Egyptology, Aztecs, Ancient History, Anthropology, Incas, Greeks, Romans, Chinese, etc.
STOP PRESS:
Our President, Francis Pryor, has just sent me this great news about the publication of his thriller/detective novel:
Dear Gilbert
HOORAY! We’ve done it. The Lifers’ Club has reached its minimum target and will now certainly be published. In the meantime I and those clever folks at Unbound have got several things to do: designing, editing and producing the book. To find out what we’re all up to you can visit my Shed at the Unbound website (and they’re going to teach me how to update it all by myself!!!).
All this is going to take time, and while we’re doing it we’ll still be able to enlist any further subscribers here. If you’d like to increase your current pledge level to include further goodies, then please do so by clicking on the upgrade options, listed below your current pledge level here. All new names will, of course, be listed in the back of the book until we close the subscribers’ list to move onto the next step.
I’m now a convert to crowd-funding. Never before have I established such a strong link with my readership as I have with this project – and the book hasn’t even been printed! Later I’ll be appearing at book festivals and book-signings and I VERY much hope we’ll be able to meet in person, if I don’t know you already. I’ll be publishing full contact details in my Shed.
Thank you so much for backing The Lifers’ Club. And I hope it gives you at least one sleepless night…
All the best,
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SUBSCRIPTIONS
2013/14 Subscriptions became due on 1st June 2013. Please renew now. The Society cannot continue to function without all members’ subscriptions. In particular, lecturers fees and expenses and hall hire have to come from subscriptions. Lack of sufficient income from subscriptions may result in fewer lectures. It’s up to us members.
Outstanding subscriptions may be paid in person at any meeting when membership cards can usually be issued also. Otherwise subscription cheques may be posted to Diane Burleigh, NHAS, 10 Cromwell Way, Pirton, Hitchin, Herts SG5 3RD.
Adult £15, Family £20, Concessions (over 65, under 16), £8.
Subscriptions for 2014/15 onwards were raised by a vote at the AGM last May.
Non-members are welcome at any of our meetings. There will be a charge of £3 for entry.
Please renew your subscription otherwise you may be removed from our membership and circulation lists.
Thank you.
Artist and landscape explorer Christina Bryant has spent a year exploring sites on the fringes of Letchworth for her Hidden Landscapes project. And on Thursday August 15 at 7.00, she will be at the Letchworth Arts Centre (2, The Arcade) speaking about what she has uncovered.
The talk forms part of the Hidden Landscapes exhibition on from August 9 to 30 in the Arts Centre’s Main Gallery. Christina’s project has been supported by the Arts Council with additional backing from Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation and combines art and archaeology. Christina, who grew up in Letchworth, worked closely with North Herts District Council archaeology officer Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews. It should make for a fascinating evening.
Christina spent 12 months exploring chosen sites located along the urban fringes of Letchworth Garden City. Her interest is in the spaces that straddle the urban and the country, the ‘wilderness’ that lies just beyond the codes and surveillance of the town. Her focus was on areas showing evidence of current or recent human occupation, recording, mapping and surveying the rubbish and debris from the selected locations. She used the painstaking methods of an archaeologist to help explore what links us with our everyday landscape.
The exhibition is a fascinating blend of drawings, maps and finds from the various sites that will be very familiar to residents of Letchworth including: Norton Common, the old quarry on Wilbury Hills and the A1(M) underpass.
Christina, a Letchworth resident, is keen to get local people involved with the project as much as possible. In addition to the exhibition, she is organising a ‘wilderness excavation’ at one of the sites which anyone will be welcome to attend. This will give people a chance first hand to experience her project, seeing Letchworth from a completely different perspective! Finally, her talk will give Letchworth residents, art or archaeology enthusiasts a chance to listen to her unique take on the Garden City.
She graduated from the University of Hertfordshire in 2004 and completed her MA in 2011 at Wimbledon College of Art. She has had a number of national exhibitions, both solo and group, during this period.
For more information, you can contact here at info or click on the website link below.
External Link:
Hidden Landscapes Project
Ashwell End (Bluegates Farm) Geophysical Survey, Friday 16th – Sunday 18th August inclusive – led by Kris Lockyear – volunteers required for one or more days – contact Ellen hertsgeosurvey
Saturday 24th August, 2pm: NHAS members are kindly invited by the Norton Community Archaeology Group to the open day at this year’s dig on the increasingly interesting and important Neolithic Henge at Norton. Guided tours by the site director, Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews.
Magna Carta 800: St Albans 2013
A fun packed programme of music and medieval mayhem.
This summer’s Magna Carta events are inspired by the 800th anniversary of St Alban’s unique place in the history of the Magna Carta.
www.enjoystalbans.com/magnacarta
01727 864511
Magna Carta 1213-1215: The Journey Starts Here Exhibition
Museum of St Albans until 15 September
Free Entry
On view King Henry I coronation charter – the precursor to the Magna Carta
1215 Magna Carta on view at St Albans Cathedral
Saturday 3rd – Thursday 29th August
Entry by ticket
Saturday 14th, 1pm to midnight & Sunday 15th September, 1pm to 5pm: Caldecote 11th century Church near Ashwell – Open Days with live classical and jazz music and cream teas. To raise funds for the repair of the tower. See attached poster.
Caldecote Church Friends
Patron: The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Caldecote
Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Caldecote
www.caldecotechurchfriends.org.uk
PLEASE SEE EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT ATTACHED!
COME ALONG – AND BRING YOUR FRIENDS!
If you are unable to come, a donation to Caldecote Church Friends for the ‘Tower Roof Fund’ will be welcomed!
Enquiries / offers of help / donations / corrections to address details
to:
Kerry Rafferty,
Secretary,
1 Farm Cottages, Caldecote, Baldock, Herts. SG7 5LD
Tel: 0774230 1812
Kerry.rob
See also attached details of our latest booklet.
Information kindly sent by Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews.
Thursday 24th October, 8pm: Professor Mike Parker Peason, University College, London, Institute of Archaeology, will give a lecture on ‘Prehistoric Henges’ at the Spirella Ballroom, Letchworth Garden City. Organised by Norton Community Archaeology Group.
Exhibitions:
The British Museum –
Life and death:
Pompeii and Herculaneum
28 March – 29 September 2013
Tickets on sale
If you’re interested in news of the latest discoveries from around the world, visit this website:
Heritage Daily – Latest Archaeology News and Archaeological Press Releases
Egyptology, Aztecs, Ancient History, Anthropology, Incas, Greeks, Romans, Chinese, etc.
SUBSCRIPTIONS
2013/14 Subscriptions became due on 1st June 2013. Please renew now. The Society cannot continue to function without all members’ subscriptions. In particular, lecturers fees and expenses and hall hire have to come from subscriptions. Lack of sufficient income from subscriptions may result in fewer lectures. It’s up to us members.
Outstanding subscriptions may be paid in person at any meeting when membership cards can usually be issued also. Otherwise subscription cheques may be posted to Diane Burleigh, NHAS, 10 Cromwell Way, Pirton, Hitchin, Herts SG5 3RD.
Adult £15, Family £20, Concessions (over 65, under 16), £8.
Subscriptions for 2014/15 onwards were raised by a vote at the AGM last May.
Non-members are welcome at any of our meetings. There will be a charge of £3 for entry.
Please renew your subscription otherwise you may be removed from our membership and circulation lists.
Thank you.
Magna Carta 800: St Albans 2013
A fun packed programme of music and medieval mayhem.
This summer’s Magna Carta events are inspired by the 800th anniversary of St Alban’s unique place in the history of the Magna Carta.
www.enjoystalbans.com/magnacarta
01727 864511
Magna Carta 1213-1215: The Journey Starts Here Exhibition
Museum of St Albans until 15 September
Free Entry
On view King Henry I coronation charter – the precursor to the Magna Carta
1215 Magna Carta on view at St Albans Cathedral
Saturday 3rd – Thursday 29th August
Entry by ticket
Magna Carta Medieval Festival
Verulamium Park
Sat 3 & Sun 4 August, 10am – 4pm
Medieval encampment; equestrian, archery and combat displays; loads of family fun. FREE
Magna Carta Concert with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & St Albans Chamber Choir
Saturday 3rd August
St Albans Cathedral, 7.30pm
Programme inspired by the themes and spirit of the Magna Carta
Ticketed event
Hi,
NHAS committee member, David Shirley, asked me to circulate information about this talk and exhibition at Letchworth Arts Centre, (2, The Arcade, SG6 3EW), on Thursday 15th August at 7pm, for your interest.
Regards,
Gil
Hi Gil,
David Walker, chairman of the Letchworth Arts Centre, has sent me the following information. I don’t know how much you know about the Hidden Landscape project but it does seem as though it would be of interest to NHAS members – both for the talk and the exhibition itself. Do you think it would be useful for you to pass this on through the email list?
I’m very busy at the moment but hope to catch up with you sometime!
Best wishes,
David
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE NORTH HERTFORDSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY WEDNESDAY 22nd MAY 2013
AGENDA
1. Apologies for absence
- Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on Wednesday 23rd May 2012
- Matters Arising
- Committee Report
- Financial Report and Adoption of Accounts
a) Proposal to increase subscription levels
Your Committee has debated the ever-rising costs of the lecture programme, which are unsustainable on the basis of the present subscription. It is, therefore, proposed that the present subscription levels be increased by either £3.00 per annum or £4.00 per annum. An increase of £3.00 would just cover the costs of the annual lecture programme; an increase of £4.00 would also allow a contribution towards the costs of the Society’s archaeological work.
Members are therefore asked to vote for either
a) An increase of £3.00 in the annual subscription
or
b) An increase of £4.00 in the annual subscription
b) Proposal that all fieldworkers must be Members of the Society
Given that the Society covers the insurance costs of anyone participating in the Society’s archaeological fieldwork activities, in future all participants must be paid-up members of the Society.
- Field Officer’s Report
- Election of Officers
- Guest Speaker – Jo Ward, Audience Development Consultant for North Herts District Council on the new NorthHertsMuseum in HitchinTown Hall: your views are sought re appearance and content.
The North Hertfordshire Archaeological Society
Notice of the 2013 Annual General Meeting of the NHAS
Wednesday 22 May 2013 at 8pm
At
THE LETCHWORTH FREE CHURCH HALL Gernon Rd (corner of Norton Way South)
Cheese, wine and good Company to accompany the Business Items
AGENDA
- Adoption of the minutes of the AGM 2012
- Committee Report
- Financial Report and Adoption of the Accounts
- Annual Budget
- Field Officers Report
- Election of Officers and Committee Members
- Icknield Way developments
- AOB
Officers and Committee Members and other help welcome:
Current Committee:
Diane Burleigh (Chairman)
Lesley Blundell (Minutes Secretary)
Gil Burleigh (Field Officer)
Jean Campbell
Brian Dickinson
Elizabeth Hunter
David Shirley
All of the above have indicated their willingness to stand for re-election.
Nominations are invited for all posts, preferably in advance to Diane Burleigh, 10 Cromwell Way Pirton SG5 3RD or e-mail dianeburleigh. You are encouraged to participate! Even if you cannot commit to regular committee meetings.