Shorne Woods Archaeology Group

YAC dig this Sunday

Posted on 9th March 2016 by Ruiha Smalley

Young Archaeologists Club dig

Shorne Woods Country Park this Sunday (13th March 2016).

Session starts at 10am and goes through until 12:30.

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Isle of Thanet Archaeological Society’s 2016 Lecture Programme

Posted on 9th February 2016 by Ruiha Smalley

IOTAS Archaeological Studies Lecture Course 2016

14 Mar 2016: ‘Not Angles but Angels’: St Augustine and the ‘conversion’ of Kent
04 Apr 2016: Rings and Roundabouts: The Lord of the Manor Ceremonial Landscape – a history and analysis of the excavations
09 May 2016: Before the Flood: The Archaeology of the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and the lost North Sea Lands.
13 June 2016: ‘The Heathen of the Seas’: Vikings in Thanet?
11 July 2016: Saxon Shores – environmental changes and historical arrivals: an overview of the SE coastline from late Roman to late Medieval times
12 Sept 2016: Richborough Roman Fort – The Gateway to Roman Britain?
10 Oct 2016: Beowulf – fact or fantasy?
14 Nov 2016: Skyscapes and Landscapes: A new interpretation of Stonehenge

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Conservation workshop handouts

Posted on 1st February 2016 by Ruiha Smalley

A conservation workshop was held on Saturday the 30th January by Dana Goodburn of CSI. The session was funded by a generous grant from the Kent Archaeological Society. The worskshop gave an introduction to the practical conservation of archaeological finds, on-site best practice, lifting, cleaning, packaging and mounting of finds.

Handouts from the day can be found on the website of the South East Museum. They cover conservation assessment, silica gel and mounting.

Thanks Dana.

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Lower Thames Crossing proposal

Posted on 31st January 2016 by Ruiha Smalley

Highways England’s have launched a public consultation on the proposed lower Thames tunnel crossing at Gravesend in Kent. This proposal directly impacts on the Shorne area and those of you interested in the park and surroundings may want to have a say on the proposal.

For more information on the proposal and a link to the survey click here.
To go straight to the survey click here

The consultation is taking place between 26 January and 24 March 2016.

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Boughton Malherbe Hoard

Posted on 27th January 2016 by Ruiha Smalley

Dr. Sophie Adams, on behalf of the Maidstone Museum & Bentlif Art Gallery, will be holding a talk on the Boughton Malherbe Hoard and related reserach, this March. The Hoard includes Bronze Age axes, swords fragments, knives and over 350 other found objects. The talk will last 45 minutes and be followed by an hour to study the objects up close.