Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th May: Test Pit in Ashwell. Sarah Talks has emailed seeking volunteers to help dig a test pit in the meadow between the church and mill (details attached).
Tuesday 16th May: Annual General Meeting. Our Field Officer will give a short preview of some of the revelations soon to be published in the British Museum Research Report, Dea Senuna: treasure, cult and ritual at Ashwell, Hertfordshire. Letchworth Free Church Hall, 8 pm. Wine and cheese, etc. £3 each (Notice of AGM attached).
There is another opportunity to learn about human skeletal remains using Iron Age and Romano-British inhumations excavated from Baldock under the expert tuition of Dr. David Klingle, Osteoarchaeologist, on a weekend course 17th – 18th June (details attached).
Hitchin Historical Society’s History Day will be on Saturday 1st July, organised by Dr. Gerry Tidy. Our Society has taken a stall so we require volunteers to man it, please (details attached).
Sunday 16th July. Our Field Trip this year will be to West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village and Grimes Graves Neolithic Flint Mines (details attached).
Current exhibitions and displays
Museum of London Docklands
The most complete range of archaeological objects unearthed by Crossrail, Europe’s largest infrastructure project, will go on display alongside the story of this great feat of engineering in a major new exhibition at the Museum of London Docklands, E14 4AL.
The construction of London’s newest railway, which will be known as the Elizabeth line when services begin in 2018, has given archaeologists a unique chance to explore some of the city’s most historically important sites. Since work began in 2009, the project has undertaken one of the most extensive archaeological programmes ever in the UK, with over 10,000 artefacts shining a light on almost every important period of the Capital’s history.
The wide variety of items on display will explore 8,000 years of human history, revealing the stories of Londoners ranging from Mesolithic tool makers and inhabitants of Roman Londinium to those affected by the Great Plague of 1665.
These finds were discovered in locations as diverse as suburban Abbey Wood in the south east, through Canary Wharf, across to Liverpool Street, Tottenham Court Road and ending in Westbourne Park and Acton. The finds will sit against a backdrop telling the engineering story of the largest infrastructure project currently underway in Europe, with key facts and figures presented throughout.
Tunnel: The Archaeology of Crossrail
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- Discover objects spanning 8,000 years of human history unearthed by Crossrail.
Subscriptions
2017/18 Subscriptions become due on 1st June 2017. Please renew. 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.
Please note 2016/17 Membership cards are now available and may be collected at any of our lectures.
Adult £19, Family £24, Concessions (over 65, under 16), £10.
Non-members are welcome at any of our meetings. There will be a charge of £4 for entry.
Please renew your subscription otherwise you may be removed from our membership and circulation lists.
Thank you.
osteoarchaeological workshop 17th-18th June 2017.pdf
osteoarch course booking form.doc
Hitchin Historical Society – History Day 2017.docx
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