North Hertfordshire Archaeological Society

Annual General Meeting
2019-05-21 20:00 UTC | Free Church Hall, Gernon Road, Letchworth Garden City, Herts, SG6 3HS, United Kingdom
Gil Burleigh will present an illustrated report on the year’s fieldwork, including parch-mark sites at Barkway, Great Offley and Pirton revealed by drone photography during the summer 2018 drought and test-pit excavations in Great Offley and Pirton, as well as test pit excavations and geophysical surveys in Ashwell.
Drinks buffet £3 per person.

What we can learn from excavated human remains
2019-04-16 20:00 - 21:30
Laura Dodd, from KDK Archaeology, will talk about how we can learn about ancient people from their skeletal remains.

Excavations at Northstowe, Cambridgeshire
2019-03-05 20:00 - 21:30
Iron Age roundhouses showing as marks in the subsoil at Northstowe
Alison Dickins will talk about the excavations carried out at Northstowe, a new town being developed on an old airfield site to the north-west of Cambridge. During excavations by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit before building work began, they found extensive archaeological remains, much of Iron Age and Roman date.

A Late Bronze Age – Early Iron Age Settlement and Prehistoric Precursor to Roman Ermine Street: Excavations at North Buntingford
2019-02-19 20:00 - 21:30
A talk by Matt Jones, Project Officer for Pre-Construct Archaeology on the excavations north of Buntingford undertaken by PCA in 2016. They revealed Later Bronze Age to Early Iron Age settlement alongside what seems to have been a prehistoric precursor to the Roman Ermine Street.

Raising the Dead – Kingly curves and Astronomers’ noses: the recent trend for celebrity exhumations
2019-01-22 20:00 - 21:30
Joseph Elders, Major Projects and Archaeology Officer, Cathedral and Church Buildings Division, Church of England

Members’ Xmas evening
2018-12-04 20:00 - 21:00
Our annual Xmas evening with buffet, wine and other refreshments, £3 per head. Mark Stevenson, Archaeology Advisor (South London), National Planning Group, Historic England, will give a talk on ‘The Archaeology of a World Heritage Site: Greenwich’. Letchworth Free Church hall, 8 pm.
