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Lectures and Meetings |
All lectures are in person at 2.30pm Elvet Riverside (Room ER140) followed by a drink at the County Hotel for those who would like to join us. Please see lectures details below for additional information.
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Saturday
13 Jan 2024
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Dr Jane Harrison
University of Newcastle
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'A North Northumberland Early Anglo-Saxon high-status site: targeted later by the Viking Great Army?'
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Saturday
10 Feb 2024
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Richard Annis and Julie Biddlecombe-Brown
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'In search of medieval Raby'
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Saturday
9 March 2024
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Richard Pears
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'Catholic country houses in Durham and Northumberland 1570-1829'
Now in Room ER201 (the building next door!)
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Saturday
13 April 2024
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Kate Chapman, ECUS Ltd
(formerly NAA)
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'Excavation and Building Recording at Egglescliffe Old Hall'
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Saturday
11 May 2024
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Annual General Meeting
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Tour, lecture and AGM at Lumley Castle (10:00-13:00).
Including a talk by Heidi Richards - 'From Romance into Reality in the English Medieval Castle
and Landscape'
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Saturday
8 June 2024
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Paul Howlett,
York Archaeology
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'Micklegate and Guildhall - The results from recent excavations by York Archaeology'
Between May and November 2020, excavations at the North Annexe of the City of York Guildhall, and between November 2022 and June 2023 at 105-111 Micklegate, York
have contributed to the understanding of the development of York during the Roman period. In the Roman period the sites were located within the civilian
settlement, the colonia. This developed from the 1st Century AD following the founding of the Legionary fortress on the northern bank of the Ouse.
The civilian settlement developed rapidly in the latter part of the 2nd Century.
The results of the excavations at Micklegate show the changes in use of the site. The earliest phase of activity on the site was a 2nd/3rd century timber
building. Demolition and restructuring were followed in the 3rd century by further phases of demolition and re-building. A high-status town house with an
opus signinum floor, hearths and evidence for painted plaster walls was found. The latest Roman activity was a tiled hearth and possible smelter with
dumping and occupation deposits, dating to the 4th century.
Now in Room ER201 (the building next door!)
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Saturday
21st September 2024
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Natalie Swann,
Senior Archaeologist, Archaeological Services Durham University
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'Recent excavations on Durham peninsula and within Durham City'.
Archaeological Services has recently completed the post-excavation analysis of the site of the new library at St John's College on South Bailey. The discoveries, which are being published in Durham Archaeological Journal alongside previous excavations by ECUS in the College gardens, together with other recent archaeological works in Durham City, have changed our understanding of the prehistoric and medieval origins of Durham.
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Saturday
12 October 2024
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Jules Brown,
Historic Places Adviser, Historic England
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'Bishop Auckland Heritage Action Zone'
Funded by Historic England and Durham County Council, the Bishop Auckland Heritage Action Zone (HAZ) set out to address the long-term decline in
town centre vitality and the condition of historic buildings, helping to improve local people's lives. Jules Brown describes the outcomes of the project and its legacy.
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Saturday
9 November 2024
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Tim Bailey,
Xsite Architecture and Chair of Northern School of Art
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'Hartlepool Conservation Area'
Architect Tim Bailey hails from Hartlepool. His lecture explores this
particular part of the town’s 'At Risk' architectural heritage and its potential role in shaping the vision for the town’s future with highlights on the Heugh Gun Battery and St Hilda's.
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Saturday
14 December 2024
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David Mason,
Senior Archaeologist, Durham County Council
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'What the Romans did for Durham and Northumberland'
County archaeologist since 2004, David Mason reflects on his career over 30 years' and paints a picture of Roman settlement in the hinterland of Hadrian’s Wall.
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Saturday
11 January 2025
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Dr Rob Young,
consultant 'Community Archaeology in Teesdale'
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Former English Heritage Inspector Rob Young talks about the search for prehistoric settlement at Gueswick Hills near Cotherstone with Altogether Archaeology.
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Saturday
8 February 2025
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Professor Peter Rowley-Conwy,
Professor Emeritus at Durham University
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'Early Farming in Britain'
Peter is passionate about animal bones, plant remains, hunter-gatherers and especially pig archaeology. Always an entertaining speaker, he will share his research insights into early farming in Britain.
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Saturday
15 March 2025
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Josh Gaunt and
Claire Christie,
Headland Archaeology
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'Defining Spaces in Iron Age Northumberland: Excavations at Morley Hill and Lower Callerton'
The Iron Age settlements excavated by Headland
Archaeology (UK) Ltd at Morley Hill and Lower Callerton lie within the rich later prehistoric landscape of the Northumberland Coastal Plain.
At Morley Hill, work revealed two later Iron Age settlements defined by rectilinear enclosures surrounding groups of roundhouses with evidence
for earlier phases of activity. The excavations at Lower Callerton revealed evidence of earlier prehistoric activity overlain by a large Iron Age
enclosure with over 53 roundhouses and structures, multiple sub-enclosures and boundaries. These two large-scale datasets allow for an increased
understanding of Iron Age settlement patterns, architectural forms, and farming practices across the region.
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Saturday
12 April 2025
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Kylie Buxton,
Excavation Project Officer, West Yorks Archaeological Services
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'Recent excavations at Buxton Lane, Ryhope'
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Saturday
8 June 2025
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Graeme Dodd,
RIBA SCA Specialist Conservation Architect at Napper Architects
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'Marrying the old and new, looking back to look forwards - recent projects at Newcastle City Pool, Morpeth Railway Station and Low Newton Rocket House'
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The Architectural and Archaeological Society
of Durham and Northumberland
