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). Members: Free. Visitors: £3. 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: 'Looking for the Atrebates - settlement and change in the Iron Age of Southern 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
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Summer visits
Visits are organised to places of archaeological and historical interest and are open to SOAG members and their guests. They are usually organised as private tours with the site experts as our guides. The tours are also social occasions for SOAGs usually incorporating a pub lunch. Two visits took place in 2010:
Silchester Roman Town (July 2010)
A private tour of this year's excavations at Insula IX at Silchester guided by Professor Mike Fulford. 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. The tour started with a lunch at the nearby Red Lion pub and was followed by members exploring the extensive remains still visible at Silchester, especially the walls and the amphitheatre.
Brightwell Park and Ascott Park (August 2010)
In the morning we were given a guided tour of Brightwell Park and its history, and an explanation of current SOAG archaeology in the Park by project leader Ian Clarke. Following a pub lunch in Chalgrove we then moved 3 miles down the road to be given a tour of Ascott Park by John Sykes, from the Oxfordshire Buildings Trust, and well known Oxfordshire historian, and former county archaeologist, John Steane. Ascott Park is the location of the 17th century mansion and gardens owned by the Dormer family, now destroyed but with the gates, avenues of limes, a dovecote, ice house, and many humps and bumps all still visible. The site was subject to an excavation by renowned Tudor garden archaeologist Brian Dix in 2009. Later in 2010 it is planned to open the site to the public as a 'mystery walk'.
Similar visits will be organised for 2011.