The Prehistoric Group has arranged a free Zoom talk by Paul Garwood of Birmingham University (Senior Lecturer in Prehistory) discussing the role of Neolithic pottery in south-east England. Online booking has been arranged to enable the Zoom link to be sent closer to the event.
The full title is: One thousand years of solitude? Social lives and transformation in the Middle and Late Neolithic of south-east England, 3500-2500 BC
SURREY ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Surrey Historic Landscapes Project: field-walking on Bockett’s Farm and in Norbury Park, Fetcham and Mickleham led by the late Steve Dyer
A Zoom talk by Dr Matt Pope for the Prehistoric Group discussing the possibilities of cross channel similarities during early prehistory. Register your interest via martintrose@aol.com
A free online talk by Dr Barney Harris of University College, London about this Leverhulme funded project. The research is comparing the two periods where tangible large scale territoriality emerged in the British landscape: the Iron Age and the early middle ages.
Booking for this is available from martintrose@aol.com
A brief fact sheet on lithics has been put together by the Society's Lithics Group.
Dry Hill Camp is a large enclosure of probable Iron Age date looking across the Eden/Medway Valley to the northern part of the Low Weald and North Downs. It is multi-vallate and lies just within Surrey, close to both Kent and Mid-Sussex. An excavation in 1932 recovered few finds and the site remained enigmatic. From 2011-2013 a level 3 tape and compass survey to check the condition of the earthworks was undertaken and a report is now available in the pdf attached below.
An analytical survey of Hascombe Hillfort (TQ 005 386) was carried out by members of the Surrey Archaeological Society over the winter of 2008-09, and a magnetometry survey of part of the interior took place in the spring of 2009. A full report of these activities (of which this is a summary) has been lodged in the Surrey Archaeological Society library.
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A new report on the prehistoric pottery from rescue excavations carried out between 1961 and 1968, at Weston Wood, Surrey, ahead of sand extraction, has just been published online.
