Talks & Lectures

Many members of the PCA staff give up their own personal time to undertake lectures to a variety of audiences both at professional lectures and society talks. The diary of events below show where our staff our giving talks and lectures.

Forthcoming Talks and Lectures

23rd March
Lighthorne History Society AGM (Warcs.)
http://www.lighthorneonline.com/LOhistry.htm
Skeleton Green, Excavations at the Romano-British Cemetery at Braughing, Hertfordshire

Monday 26th March 2012 (Evening)
Jenny proctor is giving a adult education class for the Ashington Learning Partnership
The talk is about PCA's excavations at Pegswood Moor, Morpeth and Faverdale, Darlington and how these two sites have contributed to a a change in our understanding of Late Iron Age and early Roman settlement patterns in the lowlands of North East England.

24th March

Guy Thompson, Joanna Taylor and Alistair Douglas from PCA are all talking at the LAMAS conference this year on Saturday 24th March 2012 at the Museum of London

http://www.thamesdiscovery.org/events/lamas-archaeology-conference-2012

31st March
Cambridge Antiquarian Society Conference organised by Mark Hinman, speakers include Charlotte Mathews of PCA
http://www.camantsoc.org/events.html
Conference - From the Ground Up - Contemporary Building Recording Methods and Practice

Programme (PDF)

21st April
East Herts Archaeology Society AGM Saturday 21 April 2012: Skeleton Green Part 2
The meeting will be held in the Village Hall, Cautherly Lane, Great Amwell.SG12
http://www.ehas.org.uk/index.html

12th May
CBA East AGM Saturday 12th May
Further Excavations at Skeleton Green
At Verulamium Museum, St Albans.
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/cbae/

14th July

Pete Boyer and Mark Hinman have been invited to talk on the recent excavations at Watton at Stone at a conference on recent archaeological work in Hertfordshire as a celebration of Tony Rook's 80th birthday. The conference which is being organised by Kris Lockyear of the Institute of Archaeology is provisionally planned for the 14th July 2012 at the Campus West in Welwyn Garden City.

29th August

Robin Taylor-Wilson from our Durham office is giving a talk on August 29th for the Newcastle Society of Antiquaries about the Quaker burial site at Coach Lane, North Shields, excavated by PCA in 2010. Link attached below

http://www.newcastle-antiquaries.org.uk/index.php?pageId=538

Past Events

Saturday 3 March 2012
Mark Hinman will be giving a talk at Godmanchester History and Study Day - Details as follows:

GODMANCHESTER 2012 COMMITTEE
GODMANCHESTER HISTORY STUDY DAY
A CELEBRATION OF 800 YEARS AND MORE!
Saturday 3 March 2012
Queen Elizabeth School, Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire

PROGRAMME
9.30 am-10.00 am WELCOME and registration
10.00am-11.00am Godmanchester's Beginnings - Mark Hinman

http://www.godmanchestercommunityassociation.org/news/view/2011/07/19/godmanchester-s-history-a-study-day-in-2012-announced-full-details-limited-places

March 10th

Jenny Proctor from our Durham office will be hosting a stall at Durham County Archaeology day on March 10th to promote the forthcoming publication of the Faverdale monograph (See below). Jenny will be bringing along a range of artefacts recovered from the excavation as well as publicity material about the forthcoming publication. There will also be a selection of PCA monographs available for sale.

Proctor, J. Faverdale, Darlington: Excavations at a major settlement in the northern frontier zone of Roman Britain. PCA Monograph

http://www.durham.gov.uk/Pages/Service.aspx?ServiceId=6648

13th March

Alexis Haslam from our London office, will be giving a talk at the Southwark and Lambeth Archaeological Society on Tuesday the 13th of March on the excavations at Stevens Street. Venue is 106 The Cut. Opens at 7pm. Starts 7.30pm

http://www.london-se1.co.uk/whatson/event/11424/recent-local-archaeological-and-historical-work

14th March 2012
7.30pm at Cottenham Village College
'New Landscapes of the Cambridgeshire Claylands' by Mark Hinman

Mark is particularly interested in the development of the Midland and Eastern regions during the Iron Age and Roman periods.
Over the past two decades there has been an unprecedented amount of development led archaeological investigations in Cambridgeshire. This has added an enormous amount of new data relating to the origins and evolution of human activity within the county.
For the purposes of my talk I would like to focus on how that work is reshaping our understanding of the past with reference to one small part of the county, the western claylands. In particular I would like to consider how the results of large scale developer funded excavations at Love's Farm, St Neots have contributed to this change.

Locally it has long been held that these 'cold clay lands' of the River Ouse were inhospitable to earlier populations and were thought to have been largely uninhabited. Thanks to the Loves Farm excavations we were able to show that this view was incorrect. During this project we were able to take a detailed look at the evolution of a surprisingly busy part of the agricultural landscape from the beginnings of settlement and enclosure in the later Iron Age, through into the Roman period on into the 5th century AD and beyond.

http://www.feag.co.uk/Events-2012