Video: The Mausoleum Cottage dig 2016

Posted on 11th September 2016 by Ruiha Smalley

Hugh Marley has kindly put together a short film on this year’s dig at Cobham. See some of our team in action (with local cows munching in the background) and let Andrew explain what we found and how it has been interpreted.

Thank-you Hugh.

Cottage dig video

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Villas in the Roman Landscape day conference

Posted on 11th September 2016 by Ruiha Smalley

Villas in the Roman Landscape:

Saturday 26th November 2016

A Day Conference organised by the Kent Archaeological Society

Venue: Rutherford College, Lecture Theatre 1 and 2, University of Kent at Canterbury CT2 7NX

Tickets: £25 (£20 KAS members)

Timetable:

10.00 – 10.30 Coffee and registration

10.30 – 13.00 Introduction, Session 1 – 4 (Becoming Roman a perspective, 34 kilometres of Romans, Ragstone to Riches, Controlled or spontaneous? The pattern of Roman Settlement in Central North Kent)

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.25 Session 5 – 6 (Pottery, beer and salt: the north Kent coast as a corridor of trade and industry, Local landscapes: two case studies from the Canterbury Hinterland Project)

15.30 – 16.00 Break for tea

16.00 – 17.00 Session 7 – finish (Villas of North-East Kent)

Session details and booking form: Visit the KAS website

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3D modelling of SWAG finds

Posted on 7th September 2016 by Ruiha Smalley

Otto Bagi (from the Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw) was back this year to create 3D models of two tiles finds from Randall Manor and the cricket mug from the Mausoleum Cottage dig.

Click the links to go to the models:

Cricket Mug

Medieval floor tile (geometic decoration)

Medieval floor tile (lady of the manor)

Thank-you Otto!

 

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Echinoid fossil found

Posted on 5th September 2016 by Ruiha Smalley

Our beady eyed volunteer, Pauline, has come across this fabulous fossil:

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It is an echinoid fossil – an ancient sea urchin. This particular fossil is approximately 65-145 million years old ,from the Cretaceous period. It was found in a field near the barn at the end of Lodge Lane, Cobham.

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CBASE annual conference and AGM

Posted on 1st September 2016 by Ruiha Smalley

Pots, Palaces Parks: Archaeology in the South East AD 1000–1700

2016 Annual Conference and AGM

 Saturday 19th November

Sevenoaks School (Recital Room), Sevenoaks, Kent

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Ticket prices:  £16 for members and students / £20 for non-members.   Payment can be made by cheque on by online BACS payment. Prices include refreshments and admittance to the finds displays (further details to follow).

Speakers

Dr Amanda Richardson (Keynote speaker – University of Chichester): Leaps and bounds: deer parks and fallow deer in constructions of English national identity from the 16th to the early 18th century

Nathalie Cohen (National Trust): National Trust sites in Kent and Sussex: Archaeology at Winchelsea, Bodiam and Knole

Mike Brace (University of Winchester): Some of the story of St Mary Magdalen leprosy hospital, through the pottery

Richard Savage (Surrey Archaeological Society): Woking palace excavations

Andy Mayfield (Kent County Council): LiDAR, landscapes, and community archaeology at Randall Manor

Andy Margetts (Archaeology Southeast (UCL) and University of Exeter): ‘The Hayworth’, herds and husbandry

Anne Bone (South Downs National Park): Secrets of the High Woods: Recent discoveries on the South Downs

Details

Organiser: Vicky Owen, email at studentrep@cbasouth-east.org

To get a booking form and download the day schedule click here to go to the Council of British Archaeology South East website.

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