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 mixture of online and in-person lectures. The in-person lectures are held at the Sonning Common Village Hall (location map) at 7.30 pm (unless stated otherwise) and are open to all, although donations at the door are appreciated.
For the online meetings SOAG members will be sent an invitation to register for the meeting in an email and-or in SOAG Messenger, our newsletter. Non members who wish to attend should email events@soagarch.org.uk to receive registration details.
2025-2026 lecture series
Thursday
October
9
2025
Llecture by: Dr.
Ceri Falys, (University of Reading, Osteologist in the Department of Archaeology.)
Topic:
'Discoveries
at a recent site in Wallingford'
The talk will be about a recent excavation TVAS has done in Wallingford, and the
information the skeletons have been able to tell us about life in the medieval
period and the findings of the skeletal
analysis
Thursday
Nov 6
2025
Llecture
by:
Ed Caswell,
(Oxfordshire PAS Officer)
Topic:
'The Portable Antiquities scheme; An updatethe for West
Oxfordshire.'
The talk will add some information about interesting finds from the Faringdon
area.
Thursday Dec
4 2025
Review of SOAG Archaeology (by SOAG members) and Christmas Social
Llecture
by:
Dr. Amy Styring, (University of
Oxford)
Ttopic:
'What
chemistry can tell us about the human past.'
TThursday
March
5 2026
Lecture by;
Professor Martin Bell (The University of Reading)
Topic: 'The Long Man of Wilmington, a very enigmatic chalk
figure'
Thursday
April 2
2026
SOAG AGM,
then:
Lecture by;
Topic; 'Archaeological discoveries at the Brookside Meadows
site, Grove'
Francesca will talk about the main features and finds from an
extensive Roman landscape that includes a villa and a large and (currently)
enigmatic structure that may be an aisled hall suitable for administrative,
farming or religious activity
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Summer visits
Visits are organized 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.
We also organise archaeology walks in South Oxfordshire for SOAG members.T
Other Events
See the SOAG calendar for a diary listing all SOAG happenings including fieldwork.