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ARCHAEOLOGY IN CORNWALL
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 26th 2016, 10.00 – 5.15, at the Queens Hotel, Penzance
In this year’s ‘Archaeology in Cornwall’ day, presentations will be focussed on work in the west of the county to mark the publication of Archaeology and Landscape at the Land’s End, Cornwall. The West Penwith Surveys 1980-2010. The conference will be chaired by the Society’s President, Nicholas Johnson.
The day will start at 10.00 am with registration and coffee, presentations from 10.30, lunch from 12.25 to 1.15 and an afternoon tea break from 3 to 3.30.
The cost is £25 which includes coffee, a light lunch and tea (£15 for full-time students: Truro College students can get a form for the special rate from Caradoc Peters). There will be bookstalls and displays. There is parking at the Hotel and nearby.
The booking form, together with cheques made payable to ‘Cornwall Archaeological Society’ and an s.a.e., should be sent, by November 10th, to the Membership Secretary, C/O Royal Cornwall Museum, River St, Truro TR1 2SJ. Email: . There is no possibility to pay by PayPal.
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Please send this form with cheque and sae to: Membership Secretary, C/O Royal Cornwall Museum, River St, Truro TR1 2SJ
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PROGRAMME
10 am Registration and coffee
10.30 – 12.30 Morning session
10.30 Introduction to the day by Nicholas Johnson (President, Cornwall Archaeological Society)
10.40 – 11.10 Nicholas Johnson Weaponizing archaeology – survey and conservation in the face of landscape disintegration in West Penwith
11.10 – 11.40 Andy Jones (CAU, Cornwall Council) Monuments and ceremonies: the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in West Penwith.
11.40 – 12.10 Jacky Nowakowski (CAU, Cornwall Council) Remarkable landscapes of ancient fields – later prehistoric and Romano-British settlement in West Penwith.
1210 – 12.25 Questions and discussion
Lunch Break 12.25 – 1.15
1.15 – 3.00 Afternoon session
1.15 – 1.45 Pete Herring (Historic England) Medieval West Penwith.
1.45 – 2.15 Adam Sharpe (CAU, Cornwall Council) The archaeology of mining in West Penwith
2.15 – 2.45 Henrietta Quinnell (Exeter University) Recent work on sourcing greenstone axes
2.45 – 3.00 Questions and discussion
Tea 3.00 – 3.30
3.30 – 5.15 Concluding session
3.30 – 4.00 Tom Goskar 'New light on inscribed stones in west Cornwall'.
4.00 – 4.30 Jim Parry (National Trust) Un-buckling the St Michael’s Mount Hoard – results from the analysis of a Bronze Age “founders” hoard
4.30 – 5.00 David Giddings (Cornwall Archaeological Society/CASPN) CASPN’s work in West Penwith
5.00 – 5.15 Questions and concluding discussion
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