September – Going for a Walk Pt ll – Dr Sarah Spooner
Going for a Walk Pt ll with Dr Sarah Spooner is on September 17th. After our walk down Pymar’s Lane in March we’ll be leaving south Norfolk and popping across... Read More
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NEWS
July Meeting – Michael Schmoelz – Controlling the Quest for Sanctity
Controlling the quest for sanctity – the pilgrimage business and how to escape it. For our July meeting we welcome back Michael Schmoelz. Michael last spoke to us back in... Read More
June Meeting – Dr James Wright – Medieval Stonemasons: from Quarry to Cathedral
After a couple of live meetings with Dr Helen Geake and Professor Tristan Carter we’re heading back to Zoom for our June meeting when we welcome back Dr James Wright... Read More
STOP PRESS
September – Going for a Walk Pt ll – Dr Sarah Spooner
Going for a Walk Pt ll with Dr Sarah Spooner is on September 17th. After our walk down Pymar’s Lane in March we’ll be leaving south Norfolk and popping across the border to High Suffolk to explore the curiously named Shoe Devil Lane and the landscape leading round to the... Read More
July Meeting – Michael Schmoelz – Controlling the Quest for Sanctity
Controlling the quest for sanctity – the pilgrimage business and how to escape it. For our July meeting we welcome back Michael Schmoelz. Michael last spoke to us back in March 2019 about medieval pilgrimage and the importance to both pilgrims and the church of the healing powers of the... Read More
June Meeting – Dr James Wright – Medieval Stonemasons: from Quarry to Cathedral
After a couple of live meetings with Dr Helen Geake and Professor Tristan Carter we’re heading back to Zoom for our June meeting when we welcome back Dr James Wright of Triskele Heritage to talk to us about the work of the medieval stonemason. If you watched any of James’s... Read More
May Meeting – Prof. Tristan Carter – Excavating Suffolk’s First Farmers
New Work at the Freston Causewayed Enclosure On May 14th we welcome Professor Tristan Carter, Professor of Anthropology at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. Fortunately for us he is currently on sabbatical and living in Ipswich. Tristan will be telling us about the 2019/2021 excavations at the Freston early Neolithic... Read More
April meeting – Dr Helen Geake – the Sutton Hoo ship
For our first face to face meeting in over two years we we’re very pleased to welcome Dr Helen Geake who will be talking to us about her work at Sutton Hoo and with the Sutton Hoo Ship’s Company who are building a full size reconstruction of the 7th century... Read More
Cancelled – November meeting – Prehistory in the Peloponnese
Please note this meeting has been cancelled. Just for a change this November we’re heading a long way from the Waveney Valley, back to Neolithic times in prehistoric Greece. Dr Ian Seath and Alex Falconer are both biologists with an enduring interest in prehistory. Ian has always been obsessed with... Read More
September Meeting – Anti-Invasion Defences of the UK 1940-1943
For our first meeting after our summer break we welcome as our guest speaker Chris Kolonko. Chris is an archaeologist specialising in the archaeology of the First and Second World War Home Front, in particular the anti-Invasion defences constructed during these periods. Chris has over 15 year’s experience of researching,... Read More
June meeting – Graffiti and Our Painted Past
Following our very well received May talk from Will Bowden on the the Romans in the land of the Iceni, in June we move forward to medieval times and welcome back Matt Champion with an update on ten years or more of looking very closely indeed at the interiors of... Read More
EVENTS
September – Going for a Walk Pt ll – Dr Sarah Spooner
Going for a Walk Pt ll with Dr Sarah Spooner is on September 17th. After... Read More
June Meeting – Dr James Wright – Medieval Stonemasons: from Quarry to Cathedral
After a couple of live meetings with Dr Helen Geake and Professor Tristan Carter we’re... Read More
May Meeting – Prof. Tristan Carter – Excavating Suffolk’s First Farmers
New Work at the Freston Causewayed Enclosure On May 14th we welcome Professor Tristan Carter,... Read More
April meeting – Dr Helen Geake – the Sutton Hoo ship
For our first face to face meeting in over two years we we’re very pleased... Read More
March – A walk in the country with Dr Sarah Spooner
First, a big thank you to Dr Hannah Cutler for her talk on the archaeology... Read More