Waveney Archaeology

We are a community archaeology group for the wider Waveney Valley, from Diss to Lowestoft and beyond.

No experience necessary, just curiosity. Come and join us!

NEWS

July Meeting – Michael Schmoelz – Controlling the Quest for Sanctity

25 Jun 2022

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

18 May 2022

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

May Meeting – Prof. Tristan Carter – Excavating Suffolk’s First Farmers

27 Apr 2022

STOP PRESS

July Meeting – Michael Schmoelz – Controlling the Quest for Sanctity

25 Jun 2022

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

18 May 2022

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

27 Apr 2022

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

25 Mar 2022

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

06 Oct 2021

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

01 Sep 2021

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

21 May 2021

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

May Meeting – After Boudicca, Being Roman in the Land of the Iceni

21 Apr 2021

For our May virtual meeting we we are very pleased to welcome Will Bowden, whose talk – After Boudicca, Being Roman in the Land of the Iceni, is based on the results of excavations at the Roman town of Venta Icenorum, present day Caistor St Edmund. Photograph © Mike Page... Read More

We are a community archaeology group for the wider Waveney Valley, from Diss to Lowestoft and beyond.

No experience necessary, just curiosity. Come and join us!

NEWS

July Meeting – Michael Schmoelz – Controlling the Quest for Sanctity

June Meeting – Dr James Wright – Medieval Stonemasons: from Quarry to Cathedral

May Meeting – Prof. Tristan Carter – Excavating Suffolk’s First Farmers

STOP PRESS

July Meeting – Michael Schmoelz – Controlling the Quest for Sanctity

June Meeting – Dr James Wright – Medieval Stonemasons: from Quarry to Cathedral

May Meeting – Prof. Tristan Carter – Excavating Suffolk’s First Farmers

April meeting – Dr Helen Geake – the Sutton Hoo ship

Cancelled – November meeting – Prehistory in the Peloponnese

September Meeting – Anti-Invasion Defences of the UK 1940-1943

June meeting – Graffiti and Our Painted Past

May Meeting – After Boudicca, Being Roman in the Land of the Iceni

EVENTS

June Meeting – Dr James Wright – Medieval Stonemasons: from Quarry to Cathedral

May Meeting – Prof. Tristan Carter – Excavating Suffolk’s First Farmers

April meeting – Dr Helen Geake – the Sutton Hoo ship

March – A walk in the country with Dr Sarah Spooner

February – Dr Hannah Cutler – The Archaeology of Ipswich