This year's annual Surrey Historic Environment Research Framework will be held jointly with the Council for British Archaeology South-East annual conference and themed around the subject of church archaeology. The event will be a one-day virtual conference held online, via Zoom video conferencing.
ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE CHURCH – PERSPECTIVES FROM RECENT WORK IN THE SOUTH-EAST
**please note that Gabor Thomas is unfortunately now not available to give the originally scheduled talk on Lyminge - we apologise for this, and have noted changes in the schedule below **
Conference Programme
9.30 Meeting link will open
10.00 Chair: Anne Sassin
10.05 Michael Shapland (Archaeology South-East): Chichester Cathedral: a deep-time perspective **
10.40 Alistair Douglas (Pre-Construct Archaeology): The Story of Bermondsey Abbey from Saxon Minster to the Dissolution
11.15 Coffee/Tea
11.30 Natalie Cohen (National Trust): ‘England in Stone’: Archaeology at Canterbury Cathedral
12.05 James Wright (Triskele Heritage): “Arrow Stones” in Churches – Mediaeval Archers, Casual Graffiti or Ritual Medicine? **
12.40 Lunch
13.40 Chair: Natalie Cohen
13.40 Andrew Richardson (Isle Heritage CIC), Ellie Williams and Lesley Hardy (Canterbury Christ Church University): Eanswythe Found
14.15 Jo Seaman (Heritage Eastbourne): Carved Revelations: how a graffiti survey changed the story at Eastbourne
14.50 Coffee/Tea
15.05 Rob Briggs (Surrey County Council): The tomb monument of Sir Thomas Cawarden in St Mary the Virgin’s church, Bletchingley
15.45 Closing comments and Q&A
16.00 Close