Events Round up 2009

Below is a round up of some of the events that took place during the Festival of British Archaeology 2009.

You can also see full reports and news from other events in the News section

Maldon District Council exhibition on salt

Maldon District Council

Exhibition of the history of salt production in the Maldon District

Maldon District Council held a successful exhibition about history of salt production in the area, which has seen production along its coastline for over 2,000 years! Find out more.

Great Bowden Heritage and Archaeology Group

Big Garden Dig, Great Bowden, Leicestershire

Great Bowden Garden Dig 2009 Rosemary Culkin, Archaeological Warden for Great Bowden reports on the success of the village’s contribution to the Festival this year… Read more

Hendon and District Archaeological Society (HADAS)

Brockley Hill Pottery Display & Roman Cookery Demonstration

An insight into ‘a day in the life’ of a Festival Event organiser! Read more…

Walton Hall, Kate Taylor

Wakefield Historical Society

Soap and the Social Staircase: The Simpson Family’s Victorian Country House Life, Walton Hall, Monday 18 July

Today’s event was immensely successful. The event included talk, exploration of documents, question and answer and a walk to an historical site (the grave of the naturalist and explorer, Charles Waterton. Image from the event at Walton Hall, near Wakefield, shows speaker John Goodchild (seated) discussing the significance of some of the documents he exhibited with two of the participants (Stella Robinson and Eric Morgan).

National Trust

Mystery of the Missing Priory

Nostell Priory events on Saturday went very well with c.70 attending. Mystery of the Missing Priory sold out! Lecture lunch at Nunnington today sold out. So far, so good.

Dig at Duffield Castle, Derbyshire – new event announced

A new National Trust event has been announced – a team of archaeologists will be undertaking a dig at Duffield Castle, Derbyshire.

Please feel free to come down any weekday to talk to the archaeological team. They will also be running site tours twice a day, every weekday at noon and 3pm. On Saturday 8th August there will be an Open Day, from 11–4 when you can come and meet the whole team, see some medieval artefacts and hear about what they’ve discovered. See what’s on listings for more details.

Burrough Walk

Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society

Guided Walk around Burrough Hillfort

Alan McWhirr, Honorary Secretary of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society conducted a tour around Burrough Iron Age hill fort on Monday 20 July. It was a great success and attracted 107 people!

Leicestershire Archaeology week

Leicestershire and Rutland Archaeology Week

This county-wide event, coordinated by County Archaeologist Pete Liddle, has got off to a good start with 107 people attending one guided walk (see above) and around 50 taking part in a tour of Newhouse Grange Medieval Barn. Local publicity has worked well with two features in the Leicester Mercury and several bits on Radio Leicester and good bits in town papers as well.