BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//North Hertfordshire Archaeological Society - ECPv6.0.12//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:http://www.nharchsoc.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for North Hertfordshire Archaeological Society REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20180101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200317T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200317T213000 DTSTAMP:20260512T232620 CREATED:20200204T105739Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200314T115124Z UID:994-1584475200-1584480600@www.nharchsoc.org SUMMARY:POSTPONED: Beacons of the Past – Hillforts in the Chilterns Landscape DESCRIPTION:A talk by Dr Wendy Morrison\, Project Manager\, Chilterns Conservation Board. \nPlease note that this talk has been postponed as a precaution against the spread of COVID-19. URL:http://www.nharchsoc.org/event/beacons-of-the-past-hillforts-in-the-chilterns-landscape/ LOCATION:Free Church Hall\, Gernon Road\, Letchworth Garden City\, Herts\, SG6 3HS\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Evening lecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200218T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200218T213000 DTSTAMP:20260512T232620 CREATED:20200204T105455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200204T120409Z UID:992-1582056000-1582061400@www.nharchsoc.org SUMMARY:Excavations at Warth Park\, Raunds\, Northamptonshire DESCRIPTION:A talk by by Louise Moan\, Senior Project Manager with Oxford Archaeology East. URL:http://www.nharchsoc.org/event/excavations-at-warth-park-raunds-northamptonshire/ LOCATION:Free Church Hall\, Gernon Road\, Letchworth Garden City\, Herts\, SG6 3HS\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Evening lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://www.nharchsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/raunds_henge_100931096_de27-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191119T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191119T210000 DTSTAMP:20260512T232620 CREATED:20191015T133339Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191015T133339Z UID:969-1574193600-1574197200@www.nharchsoc.org SUMMARY:The Woman and Three Babies: a unique burial from early Roman Baldock DESCRIPTION: URL:http://www.nharchsoc.org/event/the-woman-and-three-babies-a-unique-burial-from-early-roman-baldock/ LOCATION:North Hertfordshire Museum\, Brand Street\, Hitchin\, SG5 1JE\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Evening lecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191015T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191015T210000 DTSTAMP:20260512T232620 CREATED:20191015T133138Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191015T151041Z UID:967-1571169600-1571173200@www.nharchsoc.org SUMMARY:The investigation of two contrasting hillforts: Ravensburgh Castle in Hertfordshire and Moel Fodig in Denbighshire DESCRIPTION:Ravensburgh Castle Hillfort Project Report No 1 \nRavensburgh Castle Project report 2016 No 2 \nRavensburgh Castle Project report No 3 2018 \nRavensburgh Castle Geophysics Report URL:http://www.nharchsoc.org/event/the-investigation-of-two-contrasting-hillforts-ravensburgh-castle-in-hertfordshire-and-moel-fodig-in-denbighshire/ LOCATION:Free Church Hall\, Gernon Road\, Letchworth Garden City\, Herts\, SG6 3HS\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Evening lecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190810T080000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190810T180000 DTSTAMP:20260512T232620 CREATED:20190522T150327Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190522T150327Z UID:948-1565424000-1565460000@www.nharchsoc.org SUMMARY:Summer Field Trip DESCRIPTION:This summer’s trip will be to Flag Fen\, a very significant Bronze Age site\, and Crowland Abbey\, once an important Benedictine monastery; both sites are east of Peterborough. \nProgramme for the day:- \n8.00am: Pick up point in St. Mary’s Square\, Hitchin\n8.20am: Pick up point outside Letchworth Library\, Broadway\, Letchworth\n10.00am: Arrive at Flag Fen site\, Northey Road\, Peterborough. Coffees/teas available at Visitor Centre.\n10.30am – 12.30pm: Guided tour in 2 groups of the site: the Causeway remains\, the round house and droveway\, the mere\, the Roman road\, the museum with many artefacts & the logboats from Must Farm\n12.30pm – 1.20pm: Picnic lunches\, or sandwiches from the Visitor Centre café\n1.20pm – 2.00pm: Drive to Crowland\, c.12 miles north-east of Peterborough\n2.00pm – 4.00pm: Guided tour of the present church and the extensive remains of the Abbey. Small Visitor Centre with a video on the history of the Abbey. Small shop. Tea and biscuits in the Abbey pantry\n4.00pm – 4.30pm: Optional self- guided tour of the small town of Crowland\n4.30pm: Depart Crowland\n6.00pm: Drop point at Letchworth Library\, Broadway\, Letchworth\n6.15pm: Drop off point in St. Mary’s Square\, Hitchin \n ********************************************* \nPlease wear appropriate clothing and footwear. The flat open site of Flag Fen can be very windy! The site is on the level\, with grassy and gravel paths. The Visitor Centre has a small café with a limited stock of drinks\, snacks and sandwiches; we may order in advance what we need. \nOur 33 seater coach will have a toilet on board. \nThe Excursion price includes entry and a guided tour at Flag Fen\, and a guided tour with Tea and biscuits at Crowland Abbey. \nSOCIETY FINANCES: Your Committee would very much like to fill all the 33 seats on the coach\, and thus earn some income for our Society. We do urge all members to come! Non- members are welcome to come\, too\, thus\, please do ask your family\, friends and neighbours to join us! \nFlag_Fen_and_Crowland_AbbeyDownload the booking form here. URL:http://www.nharchsoc.org/event/summer-field-trip/ LOCATION:Herts CATEGORIES:Field trip END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190521T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190521T200000 DTSTAMP:20260512T232620 CREATED:20181128T183646Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190519T122700Z UID:886-1558468800-1558468800@www.nharchsoc.org SUMMARY:Annual General Meeting DESCRIPTION: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.\nDrinks buffet £3 per person. URL:http://www.nharchsoc.org/event/annual-general-meeting/ LOCATION:Free Church Hall\, Gernon Road\, Letchworth Garden City\, Herts\, SG6 3HS\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Evening meeting END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190416T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190416T213000 DTSTAMP:20260512T232620 CREATED:20181128T183143Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181128T183413Z UID:882-1555444800-1555450200@www.nharchsoc.org SUMMARY:What we can learn from excavated human remains DESCRIPTION:Laura Dodd\, from KDK Archaeology\, will talk about how we can learn about ancient people from their skeletal remains. URL:http://www.nharchsoc.org/event/what-we-can-learn-from-excavated-human-remains/ LOCATION:Free Church Hall\, Gernon Road\, Letchworth Garden City\, Herts\, SG6 3HS\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Evening lecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190305T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190305T213000 DTSTAMP:20260512T232620 CREATED:20181128T182931Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181128T183417Z UID:879-1551816000-1551821400@www.nharchsoc.org SUMMARY:Excavations at Northstowe\, Cambridgeshire DESCRIPTION:Iron Age roundhouses showing as marks in the subsoil at Northstowe \nAlison 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. URL:http://www.nharchsoc.org/event/excavations-at-northstowe-cambridgeshire/ LOCATION:Free Church Hall\, Gernon Road\, Letchworth Garden City\, Herts\, SG6 3HS\, United Kingdom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190219T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190219T213000 DTSTAMP:20260512T232620 CREATED:20181128T182205Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190210T172714Z UID:877-1550606400-1550611800@www.nharchsoc.org SUMMARY:A Late Bronze Age – Early Iron Age Settlement and Prehistoric Precursor to Roman Ermine Street: Excavations at North Buntingford DESCRIPTION: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. URL:http://www.nharchsoc.org/event/excavations-at-buntingford-hertfordshire/ LOCATION:Free Church Hall\, Gernon Road\, Letchworth Garden City\, Herts\, SG6 3HS\, United Kingdom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190122T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190122T213000 DTSTAMP:20260512T232620 CREATED:20190113T160715Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190113T160758Z UID:902-1548187200-1548192600@www.nharchsoc.org SUMMARY:Raising the Dead – Kingly curves and Astronomers’ noses: the recent trend for celebrity exhumations DESCRIPTION:Joseph Elders\, Major Projects and Archaeology Officer\, Cathedral and Church Buildings Division\, Church of England URL:http://www.nharchsoc.org/event/raising-the-dead-kingly-curves-and-astronomers-noses-the-recent-trend-for-celebrity-exhumations/ LOCATION:Free Church Hall\, Gernon Road\, Letchworth Garden City\, Herts\, SG6 3HS\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Evening lecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181204T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181204T210000 DTSTAMP:20260512T232620 CREATED:20181127T175928Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181127T175928Z UID:866-1543953600-1543957200@www.nharchsoc.org SUMMARY:Members’ Xmas evening DESCRIPTION: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. URL:http://www.nharchsoc.org/event/members-xmas-evening/ LOCATION:Free Church Hall\, Gernon Road\, Letchworth Garden City\, Herts\, SG6 3HS\, United Kingdom END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR