This section contains details of our programme of lectures and our summer visits. For the schedule of SOAG fieldwork 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.
Note that for the 2020-21 season due to the COVID-19 crisis our plan is to run our lectures online until we are safely able to return to meeting at our regular venue.
2020-21 lectures series
Thursday Sep
24 2020
Review of SOAG Archaeology (2018 – 2020)
Thursday Oct
22 2020
Lecture by:
Simon Maddison CEng FIET FBCS
Title: 'Hillforts
of Britain and Ireland’
Thursday Nov
26 2020
Lecture
by: Dr Jennifer Foster (Universities of Reading and
Oxford)
Title: ‘The Celtic Menu'
Thursday Jan
25 2021
Lecture by: Andy Hood (Foundations Archaeology)
Title: ‘Beaker settlement and possible Saxon warrior and
other burials at Sutton Road, Milton; with an update on post-excavation work
on the Roman villa at Cholsey’
Thursday Feb
25 2021
Lecture by:
Richard Greatorex
(Cotswold Archaeology)
Title:
‘Excavation of early Saxon
activity at East Challow Oxfordshire’ [to be confirmed]
Thursday Mar
25 2021
Lecture
by: Professor Malcolm Airs OBE (Kellogg College, Oxford, and
SOAG’s Patron)
Title: 'Bridges, Bay Windows and Barns: a Dorchester
Miscellany'
April 23
2021
Review of SOAG Archaeology (2020 – 2021) preceded by the SOAG AGM
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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 2020
(To be arranged)
Other Events
See the SOAG calendar for a diary listing all SOAG happenings including fieldwork.