Surrey Archaeology

Our next Finds Identification Session will be on Sat 13 Apr. Bring your interesting finds to our Finds Identification Session and discover out more about them. Surrey Finds Liaison Officer, Dr Simon Maslin will take a look. 👉 Sat 13 Apr 👉 10am – 12pm 👉 Guildford House

Catherine Langham (@aocarchaeology) is the penultimate talk of the day and will be speaking on 'Roman to Medieval Activity in #Effingham: Recent Excavations at Church Street'. Still time to book for this Saturday's annual symposium! surreyarchaeology.org.uk/content/sympos… #archaeology #surrey

Richard Savage (@surreyarch) will then address 'Old Woking: the settlement over time', looking at the settlement's development from the later 7th century onwards, using evidence from an extensive test pitting programme and documentary sources #testpitting #oldwoking #archaeology

Our Annual Symposium returns and will take place this year at East Horsley on Saturday 9 March. The day will cover recent fieldwork and research over the past year, with the full programme and booking info now available surreyarchaeology.org.uk/content/sympos… #surrey #archaeology #history

Our second speaker of the morning at Saturday's SHERF is @BGULincoln's Martin Huggon, who will be talking on 'Communities of the living, communities of the dead: hospitals in medieval social life' See surreyarchaeology.org.uk/content/sherf-… to book your tickets now

Still time to book for Saturday's SHERF and full programme of interesting talks, including @ArchSouthEast's Lorna Webb who will be kicking off the day with 'The 9 herb charm – an archaeological approach' surreyarchaeology.org.uk/content/sherf-…

Booking is now open for the online 'Pills, Potions and Poisons' #SHERF23 on Sat 24 Nov, which will look at the #history and #archaeology of medical practice. Speakers include Lorna Webb, Martin Huggon, Judie English, Mary Alexander and Patty Baker. See surreyarchaeology.org.uk/content/sherf-…

Thankfully the rain mostly held for our geophysics session with the @ChertseyMuseum YACs and @NatTrustArch today at #Ankerwycke. Some excellent technique on hand, and such enthusiasm! #landscapesurvey #geophysics @YAC_CBA

Congratulations 👏 to @madebyKG on her innovative choreography and archaeology Gathering Place project, which featured one of Surrey's finest, Holmbury Hillfort #ironage #surrey #archaeology #holmbury

Our Medieval Studies Forum are hosting their annual Zoom lecture/AGM on Thurs 16 November at 18:00 by Dr Gabor Thomas @UniRdg_Arch on ‘Anglo-Saxon monasteries of the Middle Thames: New Archaeological Perspectives from Cookham, Berkshire’. To register see surreyarchaeology.org.uk/content/mediev…

Interested in maps and local history? Then come along to the Surrey Local History Committee Autumn Symposium this Saturday (11 Nov) at Surrey History Centre, Woking, for a varied programme of map-related talks. More info and book your place at @surreyarch tinyurl.com/mpav3wxa

For #MapMonday, here is a wonderful map of #Guildford Town, c.1617, one of several maps commissioned by George Austen of Shalford surreyarchives.org.uk/collections/ge… #mapmonday