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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
21 Jan 2023
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Andrew Birley
Vindolanda
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Excavations at Vindolanda - exploring the past in the present and future.
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Saturday
18 Feb 2023
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Jane Harrison,
University of Newcastle
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WallCAP Community Archaeology on Hadrian's Wall.
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Saturday
18 March 2023
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Richard Annis,
Senior Archaeologist, Durham University
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The Archaeology of Mills.
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Saturday
25 March 2023
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AASDN Conference
Calman Learning Theatre, Durham University
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SOLD OUT!
Archaeology of the River Wear (followed by a wine reception).
Kingsley Barrett Lecture Theatre, Calman Learning Centre, Durham University, South Road, DH1 3LE
Conference Programme. Booking details: eventbright.com/riverwear_conference
Standard ticket £15 + £1.96 booking fee
Concessions (students, retired, unwaged) £10 + £1.55 booking fee
Optional buffet lunch £7.50 + £1.33 booking fee
Vegetarian and vegan option available.
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Saturday
15 April 2023
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Gary Bankhead
Honorary Research Associate, Department of Archaeology,
Durham University
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'Textile Manufacture, Taxation and Trade in Late- and Post-Medieval Durham City'
Gary's talk is based on the recent research report publication (of the same name). See monograph series: (Research Report 8):
aasdn.org.uk/monographs.htm or diveintodurham.uk/publications.htm
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Saturday
13 May 2023
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Annual General Meeting
10am to 3.30pm
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AGM and a guided tour of the Brusselton Incline, Locomotion Museum and part of the Shildon Conservation Area.
To be held at Locomotion, Dale Road Industrial Estate, Shildon DL4 2RE
(Described as a 'Georgian engineering marvel', the Brusselton Incline was part of George Stephenson's original route
for the Stockton and Darlington Railway. The rope-hauled incline was built in the 1820s to bring coal from the South
Durham Coalfield, over Brusselton hill, down to Shildon, where it met the Stockton and Darlington Railway. Brusselton
possibly had the world's first railway signalling system. The incline fell out of use in the 1880s due to a railway
tunnel being dug through the hill in 1842. We will see the railway landscape, the remains of the steam engine house
and the trackbed, which has been archaeologically excavated and some of the original stone sleeper blocks laid out
on site with new rails).
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Saturday
10 June 2023
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Tony Metcalfe
Altogether Archaeology
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'Gueswick Hills Project'
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Saturday
9 Sept 2023
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Peter Topping
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'Excavations on Wether Hill, Ingram, Northumberland, 1994-2015'
(Iron Age palisaded enclosures and Bronze Age cairn)
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Saturday
14 Oct 2023
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Steve Sherlock
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'Street House in the Neolithic'
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Saturday
11 Nov 2023
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Diana Whaley and Rob Pearson
Newcastle University
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'Durham and Northumberland OS Name Books'
The Ordnance Survey Name Books for the North East of England were compiled c.1854 to 1864 and record some of the fieldwork behind the First
Edition Six Inch OS maps. We will begin by introducing the Name Books and the surveyors who produced them, and then look at the handling of
antiquities and descriptions of buildings, using examples from Northumberland. We will then turn to the Durham Name Books to explore how the
Name Books reflect the fascinating social changes taking place in the mid-nineteenth-century.
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Saturday
9 Dec 2023
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Graeme Young,
Bamburgh Research Project
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'Archaeological work at Bamburgh Castle' (rearranged from 18 March 2023).
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2024 |
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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'Raby Castle'
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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'
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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
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The Architectural and Archaeological Society
of Durham and Northumberland
