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For details of forthcoming events please see the latest edition of the NASNews newsletter.
Medieval Wall Paintings of St Mary's Chapel, Bradwell Abbey
Sunday 12th September, 12 - 4.30pm, Tickets £8
This afternoon event gives you
the opportunity to explore the chapel followed by a programme of talks and
drinks. There will also be free family fun including archery, falconry, a hog
roast and various stalls. For further details and to book a place download the
flyer and booking form (pdf,
76Kb)
Annual
General Meeting 2009
The NAS AGM and Public Lecture will be held on
Tuesday 10th November at The Humfrey Rooms 10 Castilian Terrace, Northampton,
NN1 1LD. Doors open at
6.30pm and the AGM will begin at 7pm.
The free lecture "Village Origins: Raunds, Furnells Manor and West Cotton" by
Andy Chapman (Senior Archaeologist of Northamptonshire Archaeology) will begin
at 7.15pm and everyone is welcome. Andy was involved in the excavations in
Raunds from 1978 to 1989 and has been responsible for bringing both sites to
publication. He will tell the story of these excavations and the major
contribution they have made to our understanding of late Saxon village origins.
An archaeological tour of Stanwick Lakes
On Saturday,
12th September, Andy Chapman gave a guided walk of the Nene valley at Stanwick and Raunds touring the former sites of the Neolithic long barrow, the
Bronze Age round barrows, the Iron Age settlement, the Roman villa and West
Cotton medieval village, all excavated as part of the Raunds Area Project in the
1980s.
NAS Visit to Piddington Roman Villa excavations - 7.00pm,
Monday 14th September 2009
Northamptonshire Archaeological Society is grateful
to Roy Friendship Taylor and the Upper Nene Archaeological Society (UNAS) for
providing a unique opportunity for members to have a guided tour of the
Piddington Roman Villa excavations. The visit took place towards the end of the year’s
main digging season where we heard the latest information about their most recent
discoveries, including new finds for an early Roman military presence. After the site tour there
was an opportunity to visit the nearby Piddington Roman Villa Museum (NN7 2DD), which is located on the eastern edge of
Piddington village at Chapel End.
The excavations (at SP 7970 5400) are located in fields west of Piddington village. The village is approximately 7 km south of Northampton. Follow the B526 to Hackleton village and then take the turn to Piddington village. Turn right on to Church Street and head in the direction of the parish church. A track leads to the excavations from Church End/Old End (at SP 8015 5450, between house numbers 2 & 4).
RESCUE AGM and Open Meeting
To
mark the tenure of Roy Friendship-Taylor as Chair of
RESCUE - The
British Archaeological Trust, they held their AGM and open meeting on
Saturday, 25th April at Northampton Museum and Art Gallery, Guildhall Road,
Northampton as a joint meeting with NAS.
CBA South Midlands Spring Conference
"Grist to the mill: recent
work on windmills and watermills"
On Saturday 25th April, the Council for British Archaeology
(South
Midlands) held their Spring Conference at Church Hall, Elstow,
Bedfordshire, starting at 9.30am.
Speakers included:
The conference admission fee, £10 on the door, included the entrance charge to Elstow Moot Hall, which opened especially for the conference.
Annual General Meeting 2008This year our speaker was Professor Stephen Upex who talked about "Roman Settlement & Landscape in the Lower Nene Valley". Copies of Stephen's new book "The Romans in the East of England: Settlement and Landscape in the Lower Nene Valley" were on sale after the lecture.
Northamptonshire Archaeology,
Volume 35
The new journal (A4 format and 304 pages in glorious Technicolor) should be
available for collection at the AGM, saving us some postage costs. Copies will
go to members in the post late November/early December. This will be longest
journal the society has ever produced, including articles ranging from the early
Bronze Age to the 1940s.
Northamptonshire Archaeology Open Day
Saturday, 5th April from 10am-4pm at Cogenhoe Village Hall.
Entrance, and car parking, free to all. Donations to help towards costs will be
welcome. Meet local archaeologists and historical re-enactors.
Northamptonshire
Archaeological Society is hosting a public open day to help spread the word that
Northamptonshire has a rich and diverse history, and to make people aware of the
many local societies that they could become involved with. Members of local
archaeological and historical groups will provide displays of their work and
finds, and will be on hand to talk to the public about the archaeology and
history of Northamptonshire. There will be handouts available and publications
for sale. Groups involved will include: Northamptonshire Archaeological Society,
Upper Nene Archaeological Society,
Community Landscape and Survey Project (CLASP), and
Northamptonshire Archaeology. Heritage
Marketing and Publications
will be running a bookstall offering second-hand and new archaeology and history
books.
To help bring the past to life even more vividly, we also have two historical reenactors. Sir Thomas Tresham, a 15th Century knight who rose to high office at court in the reign of King Henry VI, will tell of his duties and his everyday worries about mortgages and writs, as well as the necessities for everyday life, clothes, food and hunting. He will be attended by one of his Northampton tenants, Agnes, who pays the rent on time twice a year through earning a modest living making and repairing shoes and manufacturing bone and leather items.
Annual General Meeting 2007:
Download a report on the 2007 AGM
here
(pdf format, 17Kb).
The Annual General Meeting of Northamptonshire Archaeological Society was held at 7pm on Monday 26th November at the Jeffery Room, Guildhall, Northampton. There was a lecture from Bill Boismier, Senior Archaeologist with Northamptonshire Archaeology, to speak on the subject of:
"Fear
and Loathing in the Middle Palaeolithic:
Mammoths at Lynford Quarry,
Norfolk, Neanderthal Hunting or Scavenging?"
At Lynford Quarry, Norfolk
an old river channel contained the remains of mammoth, woolly rhinoceros,
reindeer, horse, bison, wolf, red or arctic fox and brown bear, along with stone
handaxes and other tools, all buried under two to three metres of sands and
gravels. Well-preserved Middle Palaeolithic open-air sites are exceedingly rare
in Europe, making Lynford of national and international importance. However, a
key issue of debate is whether the evidence indicates that the Neanderthal
population was systematically hunting mammoth or whether they were being
opportunistic and scavenging the carcasses of dead mammoths. Bill Boismier
directed the excavations at Lynford Quarry and has been preparing the report. At
the AGM he will provide us with a presentation of the results and discuss the
interpretation of these important but contentious remains of our early
ancestors.
Annual General Meeting 2006:
Download a report on
the AGM here (Word format,
36Kb).
This
was held on Monday 27th November 2006 at the Jeffery Room, Guildhall,
Northampton (close to the Museum, at the top of Guildhall Rd in the town
centre). The NAS were fortunate to welcome Andrew Selkirk, Editor-in-chief of
"Current Archaeology" to give this NAS lecture. After a spell as an accountant,
Andrew has gone on to become very well known throughout British archaeology for
his having founded & edited the magazine
"Current Archaeology". The magazine has been a great success from the start,
covering many and varied aspects of archaeology across the country. Andrew has a
particular interest in amateur archaeology, and is Chairman of the
Council for Independent Archaeology. He still hugely enjoys travelling round
the country, visiting excavations and then writing about them. He is now looking
forward to more world travel and writing about the results in Current
Archaeology’s new sister magazine,
"Current World Archaeology".
Annual General Meeting 2005
Download a report on the 2005 AGM here
(rtf format, 6Kb).
Wednesday, 21st September 2005
The CLASP
(Community Landscape & Archaeology Survey Project) AGM and Public Open Meeting
was held at Bugbrooke Village Community Centre. Also, the first parts of the
'Local People-Local Past' interactive project report are available on the
CLASP web site. This project is seeking to define the Romano-British
Landscape in several parishes to the west of Northampton adjoining the River
Nene and Watling Street.
Annual General Meeting 2004
Download a
full report on the 2004 AGM here
(pdf format, 173Kb).
The AGM 2004 was held on Tuesday, November 30th in the Northampton Guildhall. The date marked the launch of our new publication "Archaeology in Northamptonshire". There was also a lecture by the well-known archaeologist Dr Francis Pryor entitled "Life in prehistoric Flag Fen: 35 years of research in a nutshell".
Francis
is, of course, a long standing member of Northamptonshire Archaeological Society
but is also one of Britain's foremost prehistorians and an excellent lecturer
who relishes challenging archaeological conventional wisdoms. In recent years
Francis has also taken on a new role, that of TV presenter with his most recent
series on the Dark Ages being shown recently on Channel 4. Francis discovered
the survival of extensive Bronze Age remains in the side of a drainage ditch at
Flag Fen in 1982. Since then the site has gone on to become Britain's leading
Bronze Age centre with a major ongoing archaeological research project combined
with innovative visitor centre & archaeological park. Waterlogging has ensured
remarkable preservation of the 3000 year old site and its enormous timber built
platform and palisade, work on which has radically changed views on the period.
The result is the clearest picture yet, of life in the Bronze Age Britain - and
all of this on the Northamptonshire border.
Annual General
Meeting 2003
On Thursday, 4th December the AGM was held in the Jeffrey
Room of The Guildhall, Northampton. Approximately 30 members attended to hear
that the NAS membership had grown to 160, largely through contacts made from the
NAS website. Volume 30 of the journal was available for collection at the
meeting and it was stated that Volume 31 was likely appear at the end of 2004.
The Accounts of the Society revealed a surplus of �25,507.59 (compared to �23,
569.17 in the previous year). Following the AGM, Steven Young from University
College Northampton gave a lecture on the Whitehall Villa and its landscape.
Annual General Meeting 2002
The AGM of the Society was held on 4
December 2002 in The Guildhall, Northampton, at 7 p.m. and was followed by a
lecture by Dr Chris Burgess (Senior Archaeologist, Northamptonshire Archaeology)
entitled "The Loch Doon Scandal: An archaeological tale of intrigue and mystery"
concerning the World War I aerial gunnery school in Ayrshire.
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Official Opening of Piddington Museum
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30th Anniversary Photographic Competition
As part of its 30th Anniversary celebrations, Northamptonshire Archaeological
Society (NAS) held a modest photographic competition in 2004. Members of NAS, of
other local societies in Northamptonshire and anyone else with an involvement or
interest in the archaeology of Northamptonshire was invited to enter.
details >>
Fieldwork Reports
Fieldwork Reports received by the N.C.C. Historic Environment Team (formerly
Northamptonshire Heritage), reproduced by permission. Please note that these
reports contain material covered by official copyright:
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| The Historic Deer Parks of Northamptonshire | |
 | The Northamptonshire Gardens Trust has published a leaflet on historic deer parks in the County, of which 112 have so far been identified. It describes their origins, characteristics, distribution and history. The N.A.S. has a limited number of copies available to members upon application to Graham Gadman, 90 Lower Thrift Street, Northampton NN1 5HP. There is a limit of one per member. Please enclose an S.A.E. large enough to contain a leaflet measuring 21 x 10 cm. |