Colchester Archaeological Group lectures: autumn/winter 2014

The Colchester Archaeological Group (CAG), the local voluntary archaeological group, presents a series of weekly lectures during the autumn and winter. These are held on Mondays in the Lion Walk United Reformed Church in Colchester town centre and are given by invited guest speakers. The lectures start at 7.30pm. Admission to each meeting per person costs £2 for members (student members free) and £4 for non-members (students £1). The CAG is always pleased to welcome non-members to lectures and new members to the group. The lectures begin on Monday 6th October.

The CAG’s series of lectures for autumn/winter 2014 are:

6th October – CAG AGM, followed by a talk by Mark Davies: ‘Colchester’s Archaeology: 50 years of major finds -who cares?’

13th October – David Gill FSA, Professor of Archaeological Heritage at the University Campus Suffolk: ‘Homecomings: Archaeological ethics and the return of looted antiquities’.

20th October – Sean O’Dell, Department of History at the University of Essex: ‘An introduction to foreshore and underwater archaeology’.

27th October – Julian Bowsher, Senior Archaeologist at the Museum of London Archaeology: ‘The archaeology of Tudor and Jacobean theatres’.

3rd  November – Dr Fiona Haughey of the Thames Learning Group: ‘Bronze Age and Iron Age evidence at Tell Tayinat, Hatay, Turkey’.

10th November – Luk Yu-ping, Curator of the Ming china exhibition at the British Museum: ‘The British Museum Ming China exhibition’. (This talk is timed to coincide with the British Museum’s exhibition ‘Ming; 50 years that changed China’ which runs from 18th September 2014 to 5th January 2015.)

17th November –  Tony Crosby, Chairman of the Essex Industrial Archaeology Group – ‘Industrial archaeology in Essex: Past, present … and future?’.

24th November – Jude Plouviez of the Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service: ‘Rendlesham rediscovered’.

1st December – Jim Rose, Visiting Research Fellow at the British Geological Survey: ‘The Bytham River system – a key routeway for early humans to visit the British land area’.

8th December – the Christmas Party!

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Visit the CAG web-site at http://caguk.net/ .

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