Archaeology Section

This Section was set up to entertain and inform those who are concerned for the past and its material remains.

We organize an annual conference and a programme of lectures which keep members abreast of developments in archaeology, both within the County and beyond. Field trips are arranged to view current excavations and exhibitions and to visit some of the notable sites and monuments in Hampshire and adjoining counties. Some of the work undertaken in the county is published in the Field Club's own Proceedings.

The Section's reports in the Newsletter further communication and debate between members.

Current programme - a full listing of all events organised by the different sections of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society.

• Wednesday 29th April - Jim Leary spoke about the 'Silbury Hill Conservation Project and Recent Research' at Peter Symonds College.
• Wednesday 12th August - Fieldtrip to the WARG excavation at St Cross, Winchester in the evening at 6.30 p.m.
• Wednesday 9th September - Evening visit to the University of Winchester excavations on the site of St Mary Magdalen Leper Hospital, Winchester, 6.15pm.
• Saturday 21st November - Annual Conference & AGM

• Saturday 18th July – Sunday 2nd August 2009 - Silchester and the Festival of British Archaeology
  The Section is not organising a visit to Silchester in 2009, but there is a full progamme of open days and lunchtime talks detailed on the Reading University Silchester webpage.
• Saturday 1st August: 10am to 5pm - Damerham Archaeology Project Open Day
  "Damerham Archaeology Project began when a group of archaeologists decided to explore some fields on the edge of Damerham in our holidays. We discovered an extraordinary collection of archaeological sites. It is very likely that these sites will prove to be of national importance." Find out more about the project by downloading the 4-page MS word document.
• Public open days at the royal 'hunting-lodge' site at Tidgrove, North Hampshire: find out more about the 2009 excavations and visit on one of the open days - September 19/20/22/23.

Previous events held by the Archaeology Section

• Visit to Butser Iron Age Farm
• Visit to Silchester Roman Town excavations
• Visit to Abbotts Ann Roman Villa - Danebury Trust excavation
• Visit to Alton Museum and Annual Cheese and Wine Party (evening)
• Evening talk - Bog Bodies
• Conference - Iron Age Hampshire

'Bridging the Bronze Age - Europe to Wessex' Annual Conference

Back on the track of the Duke of Bolton's Mansion at Old Basing From an article in Newsletter number 44

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