Our Christmas Lunch was held today at Shorne Woods, wrapping up SWAG for 2015. The company, food, drink and chocolates were superb. Phil treated us to a small concert and sing-a-long covering UK and American folk tunes, including one from local songwriter George Gilbert titled ‘Medway flows softly’. Thanks Phil.
Have a happy Christmas and see you all in 2016.
A huge thank you to all those who helped complete works at Randall Manor this week, bringing to a close our 10th season of work on the site.
Next week is our last week of activities at Shorne Woods for this year. The plan on Wednesday is for an invigorating morning stroll around the woods, identifying sites for possible test pit investigation in 2016…
On Thursday we have our Christmas lunch, 12.30 for 1pm dinner (will finish 3.30-4pm)…(bring your own beer/wine if you wish).
From The Prehistoric Society:
The Land, the Sea and the Sky begins the series of spring day-conferences exploring new directions in the landscapes of prehistory. Our first session is about landscape in its widest sense – both physically and conceptually – and will range from the minutiae of the soil particle to the vastness of the night sky. Presentations will consider the impact of recently developed approaches to environmental history, remote sensing, seabed modelling, largescale survey, cosmology and the synthesis and interpretation of a truly staggering dataset. The emphasis is on connectivity: connectivity in terms of archaeological method and practice and in terms of prehistoric use and perception of the world – the land, the sea and the sky.
Free training workshops: an introduction to practical conservation for archaeological finds with Dana Goodburn-Brown at CSI Sittingbourne in the Forum shopping centre, Sittingbourne town centre. 10.30am-3.30pm.
Two dates: Saturday 30th January 2016 or Wednesday 27th January 2016: funded by a generous grant from the Kent Archaeological Society.
Session will cover the background to practical conservation work, on-site best practice, lifting, cleaning, packaging and mounting of finds.
Please book for either session with Andrew Mayfield andrew.mayfield@kent.gov.uk.
Places limited to 8 people per session! First come, first served!
Please reserve your place by replying to this email, even if you have already expressed interest!
Otto Bagi
In October Otto Bagi came to Shorne to use photogrammerty techniques on a couple of our more fragile artefacts. His preliminary results are now in. Take a look yourself by clicking on the links below…
