What’s On July – August 2015 – Updated

Well, quite a lot in fact…

Dr Will Fletcher, Inspector of Ancient Monuments, Historic England
July 11th 2.00pm, Ditchingham Village Hall, Loddon Road, Ditchingham, NR35 2QN
Members £2.00, non-members £3.00

Thorpe Abbotts Airfield Dig, Weekend 1
July 25th – 26th, Thorpe Abbotts Village Hall, IP21 4JA
More information here

Thorpe Abbotts Airfield Dig, Weekend 2
August 1st -2nd, Thorpe Abbotts Village Hall, IP21 4JA
More information here

The Valley Stripp’d Bare Part the Second
August 8th. An exploration of the Waveney Valley, its archaeology, geology and history
with Tim Holt-Wilson starting at Broome Heath car park. More information here

Thorpe Abbotts Airfield Dig, Weekend 3
August 15th – 16th, Thorpe Abbotts Village Hall, IP21 4JA
More information here

There are also a couple of outside events which look very interesting, details below.

The Dunwich Dig

Access Cambridge Archaeology, under the direction of Dr Carenza Lewis, are supporting Touching the Tide, the Dunwich Museum and Dunwich Greyfriars Trust in a 9-day community archaeology project 27 July – 4 August exploring the history of Dunwich. This excavation is being carried out exclusively by volunteers and spaces are still available. No previous experience is necessary – full training will be provided.

To find out more information, please have a look at their website here:  You’ll also find information about the Open Day, Saturday 1st August there.

Historic England First World War Memorials Programme

Tiva Montalbano, Manager for the Historic England First World War Memorial Programme, will be giving a presentation at Leiston Abbey on the evening of Friday July 24th about the work, aims and objectives of the programme. Tiva is digging with Dig Ventures for a few days so you may get a look round the site and open trenches as well.