North Hertfordshire Archaeological Society

The investigation of two contrasting hillforts: Ravensburgh Castle in Hertfordshire and Moel Fodig in Denbighshire
2019-10-15 20:00 - 21:00 UTC | Free Church Hall, Gernon Road, Letchworth Garden City, Herts, SG6 3HS, United Kingdom
Ravensburgh Castle Hillfort Project Report No 1
Ravensburgh Castle Project report 2016 No 2
Ravensburgh Castle Project report No 3 2018
Ravensburgh Castle Geophysics Report

Summer Field Trip
2019-08-10 08:00 - 18:00 | Herts
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.
Programme for the day:-
8.00am: Pick up point in St. Mary’s Square, Hitchin
8.20am: Pick up point outside Letchworth Library, Broadway, Letchworth
10.00am: Arrive at Flag Fen site, Northey Road, Peterborough. Coffees/teas available at Visitor Centre.
10.30am – 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
12.30pm – 1.20pm: Picnic lunches, or sandwiches from the Visitor Centre café
1.20pm – 2.00pm: Drive to Crowland, c.12 miles north-east of Peterborough
2.00pm – 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
4.00pm – 4.30pm: Optional self- guided tour of the small town of Crowland
4.30pm: Depart Crowland
6.00pm: Drop point at Letchworth Library, Broadway, Letchworth
6.15pm: Drop off point in St. Mary’s Square, Hitchin
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Please 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.
Our 33 seater coach will have a toilet on board.
The Excursion price includes entry and a guided tour at Flag Fen, and a guided tour with Tea and biscuits at Crowland Abbey.
SOCIETY 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!
Flag_Fen_and_Crowland_AbbeyDownload the booking form here.

Annual General Meeting
2019-05-21 20:00 | 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 | Free Church Hall, Gernon Road, Letchworth Garden City, Herts, SG6 3HS, United Kingdom
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 | Free Church Hall, Gernon Road, Letchworth Garden City, Herts, SG6 3HS, United Kingdom
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 | Free Church Hall, Gernon Road, Letchworth Garden City, Herts, SG6 3HS, United Kingdom
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 | Free Church Hall, Gernon Road, Letchworth Garden City, Herts, SG6 3HS, United Kingdom
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 | Free Church Hall, Gernon Road, Letchworth Garden City, Herts, SG6 3HS, United Kingdom
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.
