Event Details

A full-day Study Event looking at developments in the field of archaeology in the North West. This event features live presentations and an opportunity to ask questions of the speakers. It will be live-streamed for those unable to attend in person (details provided to those who register).

Speakers include Frank Giecco and Dr Matthew Hobson (Wardell Armstrong) on recent Roman finds in Carlisle; Dr Sophie-Therese Ambler (Lancaster University) and Dr Jim Morris (University of Central Lancashire) on investigations of medieval Lowther Castle and village; Dr Pauline Clarke (Finds Liaison Officer) on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database and recent finds in Lancashire plus Fraser Brown (Oxford Archaeology North) with a look at prehistoric migration at Mesolithic sites including Windy Harbour and more. Sessions will be chaired by Dr Eleri Cousins (Lancaster University) and the ticket price includes coffee/tea/biscuit breaks in both the morning and afternoon.

9.30-9.55 am Assemble in Library events space (rear of ground floor)

9.55-10.00 Welcome and opening remarks – Dr Oliver Wilkinson, RHC Academic Coordinator

10.00-11.30 Bogs but no bodies: prehistoric migration, the introduction of farming and how the North West fits into

the bigger picture – Fraser Brown (Oxford Archaeology North)The Lowther Medieval Castle and Village Project – Dr Sophie-Therese Ambler (Lancaster University) and Dr Jim Morris (University of Central Lancashire)

11.30-12.00pm Coffee/tea & biscuits refreshment break

12.00-13.00 The extramural bathhouse at Stanwix Roman Fort: community excavations at Carlisle Cricket Club –

Frank Giecco (Wardell Armstrong)

13.00-14.00 LUNCH*

14.00-14.45 Roman Lancaster: New Archaeology, New Stories - recent geophysical surveys on Quay Meadow and Castle Hill – Professor Andrew Binley (Lancaster University) and Jason Wood (Heritage Consultancy Services)

The Portuguese brigantine “Imperatrix”: a Victorian shipwreck at Snatchems on the River Lune - Nigel Neil (Lancaster and District Heritage Group)

2.45 – 3.15 Tea/coffee & biscuits refreshment break

3.15 – 3.45 The contribution of PAS to research – Dr Pauline Clarke (Finds Liaison Officer Lancashire)

3.45 – 4.15 Two richly furnished early 2^nd Century cremation burials from Carlisle and their continental parallels - Dr Matthew Hobson (Wardell Armstrong)

4.20 – 4.30pm Comfort break

4.30pm Q&A session with speakers [broadcast but not recorded]

5.30pm Close of Study Event