CBA North’s Chair’s New Year Message

Dear CBA North Members and Friends,

And so we find ourselves and CBA North in 2022! Happy New Year and all best wishes to you and your local groups this year. For some today this is the first working day of the year, but for others this it still part of the holidays.

However beyond that it is hard to say what this year will bring, as indeed it was last year, in these unusual times. However, as usual there are many local society and group events to look forward to – albeit perhaps still through virtual and remote means for a while longer. A list has been prepared of what organised and we know of so far, which is also live on our Events website page (see Events | CBA North (wordpress.com)) which is only likely to grow.

One that this year brings is the celebrations of the 1900th birthday of Hadrian’s Wall; a key feature of our CBA North region ‘The Wall’ is perhaps what most might think of for archaeology in our area. Well studied and known about in earnest from the earliest antiquarians, such as the Venerable Bede in the early 8^th century, there remains many finds and features that are displayed, still being teased out and indeed yet to be found or even noticed. Even if you are not an ardent Romanist, the message is the same for all parts of the CBA North region; the more you look at or get involved in archaeology, the more you get out of it. There is much to do and get involved with, as well as much to celebrate, this year.

Please feel free to circulate the email or website page around your friends, family and local groups memberships. Last year I invited comments from you as our members and friends, but there were only a few messages. Please, as ever, do let me know your comments and views, as well as more particularly any news for CBA North’s wider membership.

Best wishes for 2022,

Keith Elliott
CBA North Acting Chair and Secretary

2022 Local Society and Group Events
January 2022
5 January – The Battle of Carham, Dr Alex Woolf [TILLVAS]
10 January – The Poulton Project: rewriting the archaeology of north-west England, Kevin Cootes [KENDAL]
10 January – William Cowe & Sons and the Berwick Cockle, Cameron Robertson [LOWICK]
12 January – Criminal Spirits: Gin and Whisky Smuggling in the Borders, Graeme Watson [Glendale LHS]
13 January – AGM and Member’s Evening [APPLEBY]
14 January – Local History Through Advertising, Jenni Lister [CARLISLE]
15 January – Holy Inappropriate or the Holy Grail?: The risqué playground of Medieval parish church art and architecture, Emma Wells [ARCH & ARCH]
15 January – Lives at Bell View: Our Stories: Discoveries made during Lockdown [North Northumberland Genealogy Group]
15 January – Lord Carlisle’s Railway, Graham Brooks [South West Cumbrian Historical and Archaeological Society]
17 January – From Railway Engines to Toilet Cubicles, Alan Betteney [Cleveland Industrial Archaeological Society]
17 January 2022- How heritage can promote positive mental health (tbc), Rich Bennett [LUNESDALE]
24 January – “How To Be a Seventeenth-Century Patriarch”: The Memoirs of Sir Daniel Fleming of Rydal Hall, Dr Scott Sowerby and Noah MacCormack [CWAAS]
25 January – TAS and Friends: An evening of varied archaeological projects [TAS]
26 January – A Scandalous Trough and other Tales of Romano-British Sculpture, Lindsay Allason-Jones [SANT]
29 January – Digs at Scarborough and Richmond, Recovery excavations of WW2 American aircrafts in Arundel and Sicily, Tees Pottery, Faye McLean, Inga Dorczynska and Tony Metcalfe respectively [ALTOGETHER]

February 2022
2 February – Talk by the Treasure Trove Officer [TILLVAS]
7 February – Recent Excavations at Yeavering Palace in light of new data, Sarah Semple [BAS]
14 February – Maintaining Offa’s Dyke (tbc), David McGlade [LUNESDALE]
21 February – Cleveland’s Innovative Engineers, Sue Parker [Cleveland Industrial Archaeological Society]
21 February – England’s Northern Frontier in the Fifteenth Century Scottish Marches, Dr Jackson Armstrong [CWAAS]
23 February – Scandinavian and German Merchants in Newcastle, 1840-1920: Integration, Business Connections and Success, Daniel Riddell [SANT]
26 February – Cockfield Fell and The Western End of the Stanhope and Tyne Railway, Jeanette Newell and Chris Mills, and Brian Page respectively [ALTOGETHER]

March 2022
7 March – The Archaeology of the Victoria Cross, Andrew Marriott [BAS]
14 March – Topic to be confirmed, Dr Rob Young [LUNESDALE]
21 March – The man who could have built the Forth bridge, John Dixon [Cleveland Industrial Archaeological Society]
26 March – An update of the Gueswick Hills Excavation and Gueswick Bone Finds and Regional Evidence for Livestock Husbandry, Members of the excavation team and Louisa Gidney respectively [ALTOGETHER]
28 March – Cumbrian Field Names, Professor Angus Winchester [CWAAS]
30 March – A most Egregious Misappropriation: The Wretched Coupling of Hadrian and Wall, Rob Collins [SANT]

April 2022
4 April – Circular Lives: Investigating later prehistoric roundhouse settlements & agricultural practices, Tanja Romankiewicz [BAS]
9 April – The Stockton & Darlington Railway, the railway that got the world on track: new research and plans for the bicentenary in 2025, Niall Hammond [ARCH & ARCH]
11 April – Aethelfrith and the Battle of Chester, Dr David Mason [LUNESDALE]
25 April – AGM and Member’s Evening [Cleveland Industrial Archaeology Society]
27 April – New Light on the Neolithic in North-West England, Dr Gill Hey [CWAAS]
27 April – Early Medieval Embroidery and the St. Cuthbert Maniple Re-creation Project, Alexandra Makin [SANT]

May 2022
9 May – Excavations at Bollihope Common, County Durham, Rob Young [BAS]
25 May – Newcastle upon Tyne: Mapping the City 1250-2021, Mike Barke [SANT]

June 2022
6 June – Cresswell Pele Tower: from Reivers & Ruin to Restoration, Barry Mead [BAS]
29 June – Hadrian’s Wall Collections, Frances McIntosh and Elsa Price [SANT]

July 2022
27 July – Latest Fieldwork on the Early Medieval Monastery at Lindisfarne, David Petts [SANT]

August 2022
31 August – The Blacketts: A Northern Dynasty, Greg Finch [SANT]

September 2022
5 September – On the results of the excavations at the Berwick Infirmary [BAS]
12 September – The Anatomy of Yorkshire’s Lead Smelting Mills, Richard Lamb [Cleveland Industrial Archaeological Society]
28 September – Update on Birdoswald, Tony Wilmott [SANT]

October 2022
3 October – On a possible Viking army site in the Coquet Valley, Jane Kershaw [BAS]
26 October – The Galloway Hoard, Martin Goldberg [SANT]

November 2022
7 November – On recent excavations at Birdoswald Roman Fort, Ian Haynes [BAS]
30 November – Death on the Wall: Romano-British Burial Practices on Hadrian’s Wall, Dr Trudi Buck [SANT]

December 2022
5 December – On a Hadrian’s Wall topic, Rob Collins [BAS]