Tag: Archaeology

  • HIAG Talk – The Lost Vicarage of Eltisley

    Histon and Impington Archeology Group (HIAG) and Fen Edge Archaeology Group (FEAG) have a talk on 6th June from 7.30pm at Histon Baptist Church and on Zoom.

    In place of the advertised talk there will be a talk entitled ‘The Lost Vicarage of Eltisley’ by William Franklin (Staploe Archaeology Group). The talk will discuss the excavations in 2021 of one of the half-dozen known moated sites at Eltisley.

    This moat was thought to have been a water garden associated with a house built in 1612. Excavation revealed an L-shaped building, confirmed by background research as the vicarage which was built in 1517. Records show it was uninhabitable by the 1780s and the excavation revealed evidence of its fate.

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    Those who would like the Zoom link for Monday will need to register for this on our website via the form on the ‘Contact Us’ page. The talk is free for HIAG and FEAG members, but £3 for non-members (whether in person or on zoom)

    We are hoping to reschedule the planned talk by Adam Sutton on The pottery industry of the Lower Ouse valley for a later date.

    See website for more details: https://hiarchaeology.wordpress.com/contact/

  • HIAG Talk – The Open Fields of Histon and Impington

    Histon and Impington Archaeology Group (HIAG) have a talk on 16th May from 7.30pm at Histon Baptist Church (or via Zoom).

    For over 800 years, from about 1000 AD, Histon and Impington were surrounded by nine enormous open fields which stretched to the boundaries of the neighbouring villages.  David Oates’s recent study of surviving documents from the 16th century onwards has allowed the layout of the fields to be recreated and the names of long-lost roads and locations to be identified. Some of the fields reused tracks and driveways from the Romano-British period, giving a glimpse of an even earlier village layout. After a career as a university lecturer in mathematics, David returned to the district and founded HIAG to enable local people to enjoy the landscape history and archaeology of their villages.  He is now President of HIAG.

    In person talks at Histon Baptist Church will resume after Easter, with the option to join via Zoom. Talks will remain free for members, but the charge for non-members (whether attending in person or via Zoom) will be £3.

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    Anyone wishing to join using Zoom (whether members or non-members of HIAG) must register in advance on our website here, at the latest by the Saturday preceding the talk to receive the link. Note: members will no longer be sent the Zoom link automatically. 

    See website for more details: hiarchaeology.wordpress.com

  • “Animals in Archaeology” HIAG Talk

    The next Histon and Impington Archaeology Group talk will held by Zoom on Monday 14th March at 7.30 p.m and will be given by Paul Clarkson (Bournemouth University). 

    Journeying from Mesolithic hunters to Neolithic farmers, and from Roman towns in Norfolk to small frogs in pre-medieval Dorset, the talk will explore animal-human interactions and what they tell us about how people lived. The talk will explain how we recover, identify, and interpret the bones we find to show how people lived, and the effect they had on animals.

    Paul has a MSc in Osteoarchaeology from Bournemouth University where he is currently researching microfauna recovered from a wide range of archaeological sites in Turkey

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    Use www.hiarchaeology.wordpress.com/contact to register for this free talk: a Zoom link will be sent in advance.  HIAG members receive the Zoom link automatically.

  • Dating in the Iron Age: brooches, bones and Bayesian – HIAG Talk

    The next talk from Histon and Impington Archaeology Group will be held by Zoom on Monday 14th February at 7.30 p.m. It will be given by Dr Sophia Adams,  Curator: European Iron Age and Roman Conquest Period, British Museum.

    Dating for the Iron Age is all about who you know and where you met them!

    Traditional methods of dating based on connections between the type and style of objects provide relative dates but are difficult to test, and modern radiocarbon dating has had limited impact as there are problems with the calibration of dates for this period. This talk will introduce you to the actual processes of radiocarbon dating and describe how a radiocarbon dating project at the University of Glasgow (using Iron Age brooches) enlisted the help of Bayesian modelling to get around the  problems of dating objects from this period. 

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    Use www.hiarchaeology.wordpress.com/contact to register for this free talk: a Zoom link will be sent in advance.  HIAG members receive the Zoom link automatically.

    Photograph: Iron Age brooches from Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire – Courtesy of MAP Archaeology.

  • The Dead of Cambridgeshire – HIAG Talk

    The next HIAG talk, to be held by Zoom on Monday 17th January at 7.30 p.m. will be ‘The Dead of Cambridgeshire: excavations at a Roman roadside settlement and an Anglo-Saxon cemetery‘ by David Ingham of Albion Archaeology.

    David will be talking about the findings from two recent excavations local excavations which produced substantial numbers of graves – a Roman site at Fenstanton and 5th-6th century burials from Newnham.

    Use www.hiarchaeology.wordpress.com/contact to register for this free talk: a Zoom link will be sent in advance.  HIAG members receive the Zoom link automatically.

    The image shows a ditch burial at Fenstanton. Copyright: Albion Archaeology.

  • The Lost Roman Town of Great Chesterford – HIAG talk

    The next HIAG talk, to be held by Zoom on Monday 8th November at 7.30 p.m. is  ‘The Lost Roman Town of Great Chesterford’ given  by Maria Medlycott, Senior Historic Consultant, Essex County Council.  Once the second largest Roman town in Essex, Great Chesterford is now largely invisible, but this overview of the results of archaeological fieldwork will allow you to picture it in your mind’s eye as you drive by the fields where it once stood. 

    Use www.hiarchaeology.wordpress.com/contact to register for this free talk: a Zoom link will be sent in advance.  HIAG members receive the Zoom link automatically.

    The left-hand image at the top of the page show an aerial photo of cropmarks revealing the buried remains of the scheduled Roman town of Great Chesterford. The roads within the town are visible as lighter lines within the crop and the pits, property boundaries and possible temple are visible as darker lines. Credit: Helen Saunders ©Essex county Council. The right-hand image shows an artist’s impression of an aerial view of the Roman Town of Great Chesterford in its heyday. Credit: ©Peter Froste, Essex County Council

  • How to build a Roman Villa – HIAG talk

    How to build a Roman Villa – HIAG talk

    Paddy Lambert, Project Officer at Oxford Archaeology East (OAE) will give a talk about the weird and wonderful world of building Roman Villas.

    This talk presents the preliminary results of a nationally significant archaeological excavation. The incredibly well-preserved remains include a Romano-British building site, a temple-mausoleum converted to a tile factory, pottery, and lime manufacture and much, much more. For lovers of the Roman world, it ranks amongst the most exciting and important Late Romano-British archaeology encountered from Roman Britain. And one of the best examples of a Roman road recently excavated.

    It will be held on Monday 13th September at 7.30pm by Zoom.

    Please also use HIAG Contact Us page to request the link for this free talk. The Zoom link will be emailed about 3 days in advance of the talk (HIAG members will receive it automatically).

  • ‘Spitfire Excavation in the Great Fen’ – HIAG talk

    James Fairbairn, Project Officer at Oxford Archaeology East (OAE) will give a talk about the story of Spitfire ‘Kerala’ Mk la X4593 which crashed on the 22nd of November 1940 on a routine training flight with the Pilot Officer Harold Penketh being killed.

    During October 2015 OAE, local community volunteers, and members of Operation Nightingale excavated the remains of the Spitfire near Holme Fen in Cambridgeshire. This talk will tell Pilot Officer Penketh’s story and that of his Spitfire – it is in his memory. 

    It will be held on Monday 5th July at 7.30pm by Zoom.

    There is no charge for this Zoom talk but as it takes place during Histon & Impington Feast Week donations are invited to Feast Week charities.  See here to make a donation – and if you are not a member of HIAG, please also use HIAG Contact Us page to request the link for this free talk. The Zoom link will be emailed about 3 days in advance of the talk (HIAG members will receive it automatically).

  • ‘A potful of peses – changing diets in the late Middle Ages’ – HIAG Talk

    ‘A potful of peses – changing diets in the late Middle Ages’ with Dr Joanne Sear, Institute of Continuing Education, Madingley, Cambridge.

    HIAG hosts a live zoom talk on Monday 14th June 2021 at 7:30 pm.

    To register for the talk, use the web Contact Us page and you will be sent a Zoom link three days in advance of the talk. There is no charge.

    HIAG and FEAG members do not need to register as the Zoom link is sent automatically.

  • ‘The Old Stones – the Megalithic Sites of Britain and Ireland’- HIAG Talk

    ‘The Old Stones – the Megalithic Sites of Britain and Ireland’ with Andy Burnham, Editor of award winning ‘Field Guide to the Megalithic Sites of Britain and Ireland’.

    Hosted by Fen Edge Archaeology Group & Histon and Impington Archaeology Group this is a zoom talk live at 7:30 pm on Monday 7th June 2021.

    To register for the talk, use the web Contact Us page and you will be sent a Zoom link three days in advance of the talk. There is no charge.

    HIAG and FEAG members do not need to register as the Zoom link is sent automatically.