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... Read More
May Meeting – After Boudicca, Being Roman in the Land of the Iceni
For our May virtual meeting we we are very pleased to welcome Will Bowden, whose talk – After Boudicca, Being Roman in the Land of... Read More
April Meeting – The Blythburgh Hoard
Following our very successful Zoom meetings with Elizabeth McDonald and James Wright (slight technical hiccups aside), we’ll be virtually meeting on Saturday April 17th at... Read More
February Update
First of all, thank you to Dr Elizabeth McDonald for her talk He Loves Me, He Loves Me not, the First Valentine’s Letter, and apologies... Read More
January Update
“He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not”: Margery Brews and the “first” Valentine’s Letter. We’re happy to announce our first virtual event on Saturday 13th... Read More
Bungay Cemetery Recording Project
Graveyards possess an important role in a community as the final resting place for its population, and these spaces bear witness to the desire for... Read More
Coronavirus Update
We have decided we have to cancel our meetings scheduled for June 13th with Jo Porter and July 18th with Sarah Spooner. We hope to... Read More
Coronavirus – Meetings Cancelled
We have reluctantly taken the decision to cancel our next two meetings on April 18th and May 16th. We will be reviewing the situation as... Read More
POSTPONED – March meeting
Because of the rapid increase in the number of reported and confirmed cases of coronavirus over the last 48 hours we have reluctantly taken the... Read More
Hatched, Matched and Dispatched
Rowena Burgess, who spoke to us about the Swing riots in February, will be giving a talk at the Fisher Theatre in Bungay on May... Read More
March meeting – Coming to a Stop – Rob Liddiard
This month we are very pleased to welcome back Rob Liddiard. Based on new research Rob’s talk will be about the archaeology of the defensive... Read More
February meeting – The Swing Riots in Norfolk – Rowena Burgess
England in the first half of the nineteenth century was not a particularly tranquil land. The Luddite movement in the early years of the century... Read More
January meeting – Angel Roof Churches in East Anglia – Sarah Cassell
For our first meeting of 2020 we welcome Dr Sarah Cassell, an Associate Tutor at UEA where she completed her PhD thesis on angel roofs... Read More
Happy Christmas
A very happy Christmas and New Year to all our members and subscribers, and thank you for supporting us and coming along to our meetings... Read More
November meeting – Mystic Beasts – David Wollweber
For our last meeting of 2019 we turn again to our Secretary Dave Wollweber who came across some strange carvings above the Ancient House in... Read More
October meeting – The Basque Children in Suffolk – Dr Edward Packard
On October 12th we welcome back as our guest speaker Dr Edward Packard, ‘the third most famous Edward Packard from Ipswich’ Ed will tell us... Read More
September meeting – Redgrave Park – Tim Holt-Wilson
For the first of our autumn meetings we welcome as our guest speaker Tim Holt-Wilson. Tim was one of the original members of our group... Read More
Fieldwalking 2019
We’re back in Syleham again this year, and our first weekend will be the August Bank Holiday weekend, 24th -26th. There may also be an... Read More
Coming Up in April, May and June
April 13th St John the Baptist, Barnby – Dr Ian Hinton An archaeological analysis of a standing building Our speaker for our April meeting will... Read More
March Meeting – Medieval Pilgrimage Routes in E Anglia – Michael Schmoelz
For our March meeting we welcome Michael Schmoelz from the University of East Anglia who will be talking to us about medieval pilgrimage routes in... Read More
February meeting – Ken Hamilton on the Wreck of the Rooswijk
On February 16th we welcome back Ken Hamilton to talk to us about something we haven’t touched on before, underwater archaeology, and specifically the archaeology of... Read More
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