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For details of forthcoming events please see the latest edition of the NASNews newsletter.
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
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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. |