Summer visits 2010
The following visits are for SOAG members and their guests.
Saturday July 10th 2010 2.30pm - Silchester Roman Town
A private tour of this year's excavations at Insular IX at Silchester guided by Professor Mike Fulford and dig director Amanda Clarke. Over the last 12 years the dig has excavated 300 years of occupation and is now reaching the boundary between the Iron Age and the Roman occupation. Those attending the recent public lecture by Professor Mike Fulford at Reading University will know that he has some radical theories about what happened at Silchester in the middle years of the first century AD, and this will be a chance to see some of the evidence on site. Members are also invited to meet first for a SOAG lunch at the nearby Red Lion pub at 12.30pm.
Sunday August 1st 2010 10.30am to 3.00pm - Brightwell Park and Ascott Park
In the morning we will be given a guided tour of SOAG archaeology at Brightwell Park by project leader Ian Clarke. Following a pub lunch we will then move 3 miles down the road to be given a tour of Ascott Park by John Sykes from the Oxfordshire Buildings Trust which last year organised the excavation led by Brian Dix to locate the late medieval Manor House, its successor, and the associated gardens.
If you would like to attend please contact us.
Programme of Lectures 2010 - 2011
All lectures are held at the Goring Heath Parish Hall, Whitchurch Hill (map) at 7.30 pm for 7.45pm (unless stated otherwise). Visitors: £2.50; Members: Free. For more information about any of the events please contact us.
We have a full programme of lectures running from September 2010 to April 2011.
- Thursday Sept 23 2010
Lecture by Dr Richard Massey (English Heritage)
Title: (To be decided, but related to Romans in Britain) - Thursday Oct 28 2010
Lecture by Dr Rick Schulting (Institute of Archaeology, Oxford)
Title: 'Knocked about the head: evidence for interpersonal violence in Neolithic Britain' - Thursday Nov 25 2010
Lecture by Julian Munby (Oxford Archaeology)
Title: ‘Timber Building in Oxfordshire/Berkshire’ - Thursday Jan 27 2011
Lecture by Gwilym Williams (John Moore Heritage Services)
Title: 'Medieval excavations at Newington: drawing together the results of work by SOAG and JMHS' - Thursday Feb 24 2011
Lecture by Prof Malcom Airs (Kellogg College, Oxford)
Title: 'The Survival of the Country House in the Twentieth Century'. - Thursday Mar 24 2011
Lecture by Dr Nicholas Saunders (Universtiy of Bristol)
Title: '20th-century conflict: Archaeological and Anthropological perspectives' - Sunday April 18 2011
SOAG 42nd Annual General Meeting 2.00 – 5.00pm and Review of SOAG Archaeology 2010-11