This section contains details of our programme of lectures and our summer visits. For the the schedule of SOAG fieldword see SOAG Calendar
Programme of Lectures
We run a programme of lectures from September to April. All lectures are held at the Goring Heath Parish Hall, Whitchurch Hill (map) at 7.30 pm for 7.45pm (unless stated otherwise) and are open to all, although donations at the door are appreciated.
2019-2020 lectures series
Thursday Sept 26
2019
Lecture by Rob Wadley (Oxford Blues)
Title: 'What archaeology can you
find with a metal detector?'
Thursday Oct
24 2019
Lecture by Ben Ford (Oxford Archaeology)
Title: 'Hampton
Court Palace: Initial results from selected excavations and building recording
works'
Thursday Nov
18
2019
Lecture by
Dr Jane Harrison
(Oxford University)
Title: 'The
recnstructio of the Saxon Hall House at Long Wittenham.' (See also Visits
below).
Thursday Nov
28
2019
SOAG's 50th birthday celebrations
Thursday Jan
23 2020
Lecture by Tim Williams (UCL)
Title: 'On the Silk Road''
Thursday Feb
27 2020
Lecture by
Dr Jennifer Foster
(Oxford
Dept of Continuing Education)
Title:
‘Sutton
Hoo’
Thursday Mar
26 2020
Lecture:
by Matt Nichol (Cotswold Archaeology)
Title:
‘Excavation
of early Saxon activity at East Challow Oxfordshire’
Sunday April 26
2020 (2-5 pm)
SOAG's public Review of Archaeology, preceded by SOAG AGM (venue)
Followed by the SOAG end-of-year party.
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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 often incorporating a pub lunch.
Visits 2019
Friday July 12th:
Silchester 2019 bathhouse excavationsSunday November 24th:
'House of Wessex' project, Long Wittenham
Other Events
See the SOAG calendar for a diary listing all SOAG happenings including fieldwork.