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.
Canterbury Christ Church University is promoting their Archaeology programme and would like to invite you to come along to their free information evening to see the different ways to study Archaeology at the University. Continue reading
During November, at Randall Manor, Stan Matthews found a silver groat in the south-east corner of the site. We asked staff at the Portable Antiquities Scheme for help on its identification and Walter Ahmet, Finds Liaison Assistant for Heritage Conservation, Kent County Council, kindly gives us this description:
One of our regulars, Frank Beresford, will be presenting his research on the Palaeolithic at a conference this month.
The ‘Unravelling the Palaeolithic Symposium‘ will be held at the University of Southampton in January 2016. The multidisciplinary symposium will provide a forum to present and discuss new and innovative advances in Palaeolithic research. Continue reading
For those of you with an interest in LIDAR go to this website for a zoomable map (1m resolution):
LIDAR map of England and Wales
This comes from Open Government LIDAR data (DSM 1m) from the Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales.
