Planned Events

Lecture Programme 2010/11

15 October 2010
A History of Coleshill
Julian Hunt

19 November 2010
Excavations at Denham
Laurie Coleman

21 January 2011
Skulls from the Thames
Yvonne Edwards

18 February 2011
Chiltern Artists in the Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society's Collection
Sarah Gray

18 March 2011
Members Evening

15 April 2011
AGM

The venue for our Lecture Meetings has changed. They are now held the Lowndes Room, Chesham Town Hall, Chesham on the third Friday of the month. They begin at 8.00 pm. Members pay £1 and visitors £2.

Archaeology Field Group Programme Autumn/Winter 2010

During September 2010, we will continue with the survey and excavation of a large Romano-British site in the Chess Valley. Last year's work revealed several dumps of Romano-British material including masses of building materials and pottery.

Later in the year, we plan to dig on the site of a Bronze Age burnt mound where preliminary excavations in 2009 identified part of the mound and Bronze Age pottery fragments. Very few features of this kind have been excavated in Buckinghamshire. We have now got permission for a more extensive excavation. A good-size team of people (diggers and sievers/washers) will be needed for this interesting project.

If you are interested in joining any of these activities, please tick the Field Group box when completing the application form to join the Society (see Membership).

We welcome people with experience and also novices - training in survey, excavation and recording is given. For those who find digging difficult, there is work to do on post-excavation analysis and recording of finds.