BAAS Programme

Autumn/Winter 2011/2012

Important; Please Note

(1) All events are FREE to members (NON-MEMBERS are welcome to attend at a charge of ONE POUND per meeting).

(2) All meetings take place in ST. MATTHEW'S CHURCH, CLARE ROAD, KINGSDOWN, BRISTOL. Unless otherwise stated, meetings start at 7:30PM and finish around 9:30PM. Please note that for security reasons the front door of the church will be locked after 7:45PM. If you are unavoidably late please ring the bell for admittance.

WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER
2011 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (PART 2). Because the AGM on 16 March 2011 was inquorate the meeting will be reconvened on 14 September - full details are given below. **PIease make every effort to attend**. The meeting will be followed by a talk by our Chairman, Peter Insole on Bristol City Council's "Know Your Place" historic mapping project.

WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER
ANALYSIS OF A MEDIEVAL SKELETAL POPULATION; HEALTH, STATUS & BURIAL PRACTICE IN S W ENGLAND. Illustrated talk by Dr Heidi Dawson.

WEDNESDAY 9 NOVEMBER
RECENT DISCOVERIES IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE - THE LATEST FINDS RECORDED BY THE PORTABLE ANTIQUITIES SCHEME. Illustrated talk by Kurt Adams.

WEDNESDAY 14 DECEMBER
XMAS PARTY, BOOK SALE & "OLD BRISTOL" QUIZ. Contributions of food, drink & books will all be welcome !!

WEDNESDAY 11 JANUARY
PARSONAGE FIELD, BRADLEY STOKE - A 1980's EXCAVATION REVISITED. A fresh look at the series of rescue excavations carried out by BAAS members over a 12 month period in 1984 & 1985, recovering extensive evidence of medieval & later occupation & numerous interesting finds. Illustrated talk by James Russell.

WEDNESDAY 8 FEBRUARY
** GRINSELL MEMORIAL LECTURE**
WEST KENNET LONG BARROW - AND FRIENDS. Illustrated talk by Julian Richards, presenter of "Meet the Ancestors" and many other TV & radio programmes, and an authority on the prehistory of Wessex.

WEDNESDAY 14 MARCH
2012 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, followed by illustrated talk by Tony Roberts on NESLEY FARM, WESTONBIRT - THE HOMESTEAD OF METTUS? Full details will appear in Bulletin 62.

WEDNESDAY 11 APRIL
ROMANS IN THE BRISTOL CHANNEL, Illustrated talk by Dr James Ellis Jones.