Calendar of weekly meetings


Programme of Meetings January 2012 to May 2012

Tuesday
17 January
Burlington House Lecture Series:
Ballast Heavers and Battleaxes: the golden age of archaeological finds from the Thames
Jon Cotton FSA
To be held at the Geological Society. For more details visit www.burlingtonhouse.org/events

26 January
The Strawberry Hill Press and its Printing House: an account, an iconography and a survival
Stephen Clarke FSA
2 February
The Roman Legionary Fortress at Caerleon: results of recent research and new discoveries
Andrew Gardner FSA, Peter Guest FSA and Tim Young FSA                BALLOT

9 February
'Brethren of the quill': antiquaries and discoveries in eighteenth-century Cambridge   
Lucilla Burn FSA
16 February
Collector, Dealer and Forger: the perils of collecting bookbindings and caskets in the nineteenth century
Mirjam Foot FSA
23 February
Westminster Abbey Re-Examined: Archaeology and Research since 2000
Warwick Rodwell FSA
1 March
Megalithic Studies in Wales: a review
Frances Lynch FSA
A joint meeting with the Cardiff Archaeological Society. To be held in the Julian Hodge lecture room, Cardiff University. More details to follow.
8 March
Inigo Jones, the Surveyors of the Works and the "Parliament House"
Alisdair Hawkyard FSA
15 March
Digging at the Gateway: archaeological discovery on the East Kent Access Road
Ken Welsh, Simon Mason
23 April
Anniversary Meeting
3 May
The Society’s 14th-century painting of The Dream of the Virgin by Simone dei Crocefissi in the National Gallery: an art-historical exploration   
Jill Franklin FSA
10 May
Gathering time and time gathered: dating the causewayed enclosures of southern Britain and Ireland
Alasdair Whittle FSA, Frances Healy FSA, Alex Bayliss FSA
17 May
The archaeology of English Royal Burial: a neglected subject?
Tim Tatton-Brown
24 May
How Scots Renaissance Architecture turned French: Huntly Castle in 1553
Charles McKean
31 May
A Miscellany of Papers (Details to Follow)
14 July
Fellows Day at Kelmscott Manor (Details to Follow)