CBA North News
Our CBA North news contains, as ever, a number of notices of events across the CBA North region – but in particular for Cumbria this time. In particular we are especially pleased to send you details of a regional archaeology conference in Carlisle, which your committee has felt privileged to be asked to support and has so agreed to support. We also have a short update on a Cumbrian project previously featured in our emails to you.
In addition our usual listing of events include those to come soon this month. These are from all round the CBA North region. However, also as ever, the sharp-eyed will notice changes on our Events website page (with two slight changes in details and 20 completely new entries), including those of our member groups the Appleby Archaeology Group, Coquetdale Community Archaeology and the Northumberland Archaeological Group.
We hope you that you enjoy these events and that you might contribute something, perhaps of your own local group’s activities this summer?, that you think that others might enjoy or should know of for our next issue.
Best wishes,
CBA North Committee,
01.10.2019
Connected Communities: Northern Prehistory Conference: Tickets now available
The rock art motif and landscape of Long Meg, Cumbria, photographed by, and copyright of, Scott Wrigglesworth
Elsa Price, Curator at Tullie House Museum, Carlisle, has written a further piece outlining the conference which we sent in an earlier email to you. She writes of the two day conference;
‘I am pleased to announce that tickets are now available for the Northern Prehistory: Connected Communities conference at Tullie House in partnership with Durham University on the 12th and 13th October.
Professor Richard Bradley of Reading University, author of many articles and books on prehistory, will be delivering a speech on “North by North West: Sharing Problems and Answers” to set the scene for the conference. This weekend will bring together a range of professionals from archaeological units, curators, museum educators, students, academics and community centred groups and explore the interdisciplinary nature of the connections within Northern Prehistory.
The conference will be a great opportunity to discuss how public-facing heritage sites and projects can interact with and utilise archaeological and academic expertise. With the inclusion of Prehistory to the National Curriculum in 2014 both schoolchildren and the wider public are becoming interested in their prehistoric heritage, making this an important time to inspire new research and engagement that will move Northern prehistory into the 21st Century. Additionally the National Lottery and Heritage Fund is also placing greater stress upon the impact upon and diversity of participants and audiences in their sponsored projects, so I hope that this weekend will inspire further projects.
Tickets are £50 and will give delegates access to a full day of talks on Saturday (12th October), a half day of talks on the Sunday (13th of October) morning with an afternoon of interactive sessions and workshops to help develop your own local group projects. Lunch and refreshments, on both days, are included with the ticket fee. Conference tickets also grant attendees free access to the museum for the weekend of the conference.
Tickets are now available through the Tullie House box office. Please call 01228 618700 or visit Eventbrite (for which a small booking fee applies) here.
Bursaries
The Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society will award four Clare Fell Fund Bursaries of up to £150 each to students to attend this conference.
Applications (no need for an application form) should be made direct to the society treasurer Dr W D Shannon at treasurer@cumbriapast.org giving name, address, age, institution attended, course i.e. graduate/post-graduate and any special interests. Applications for one of these bursaries should be made as soon as possible.
Sponsorship
This conference has been kindly sponsored by the Council for British Archaeology North.
Further Information and Enquiries
Please see the conference programme below. For further information please visit the Tullie House website. For any other enquiries please contact me, Elsa Price, through my own email address here, or my colleague Kate Sharpe through her email address here‘.
The programme
This is a provisional programme and may be subject to change
Day 1: Saturday 12th October
09:30 Registration, Tea and Coffee served in the function room
SESSION 1 (Lecture Theatre): 10:00 – 10:30 | |
10:00 | Welcome: Gabrielle Heffernan |
10:10 | Introduction: Elsa Price and Kate Sharpe |
10:30 | Keynote: Richard Bradley “North by northwest: sharing problems and asking questions” |
11:15-11:30 Short comfort break
SESSION 2: SETTING THE SCENE Chair: Kate Sharpe Lecture Theatre: 11:30-12:45 |
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11:30 | Something for everyone: Early Prehistory in North West England Sue Stallibrass, Historic England |
11:55 | Prehistory in the Lake District: recent discoveries and future research Eleanor Kingston, LDNPA Archaeology Officer |
12:20 | Recent landscape studies in Cumbria and the potential for further research Joel Goodchild, Archaeological Research Services Ltd |
12:45 | Presenting Prehistory Elsa Price, Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery |
13:10 | END |
13:10-14:00 Lunch served in function room
SESSION 3A and B (Lecture Theatre + Meeting Room): 13:45-15:15 | ||
3B: TRACES of LIFE and DEATH Lecture Theatre Chair: Paul Frodsham |
3A: EARLY ENCOUNTERS with PREHISTORY Meeting Room Chair: Elsa Price |
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14:00 | Early Neolithic settlement and votive deposition in Cumbria and beyond David Cockcroft, Robin Holgate and Clive Waddington (Archaeological Research Services Ltd Abstract) |
Preparing for Prehistory. Creating a schools engagement programme from scratch Kathryn Wharton, Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums |
14:25 | Monumentality, mortality, metalwork and Morecambe Brendon Wilkins (DigVentures), Stuart Noon (DigVentures), Edward Caswell (Portable Antiquities Scheme), Johanna Ungemach (DigVentures) and Benjamin Roberts (Durham University) |
Curating education: A collaborative approach to developing an object-based prehistory offer Katherine Baxter and Emily Nelson, Leeds Museums and Galleries |
14:50 | Early Bronze Age burial and funerary practices in Cumbria and beyond David Cockcroft and Ben Dyson (Archaeological Research Services Ltd Abstract) |
Facing the challenge of teaching Key Stage 2 audiences about Prehistory at the Museum Paddy Holland, Durham University Library and Heritage Collections Learning Team |
15:15 | Rock art without borders: ‘Cumbrian’ carvings in a wider context Kate Sharpe, Durham University |
Researching Museums Collections Gabrielle Heffernan, Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery |
15:40 | END | END |
15:40-16:10 Tea and coffee served in function room
SESSION 4A and B (Lecture Theatre + Meeting Room): 15:30-17:00 | ||
4A: THE PURSUIT of STUFF Lecture Theatre Chair: Elsa Price |
4B: THE AXE FACTOR Meeting Room Chair: Kate Sharpe |
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16:10 | People and their pots: the Bronze Age pottery of Cumbria Clara Freer, Exeter University |
Searching for hidden treasures: finding and recording Neolithic stone axes in Cumbria Sally Taylor, Oxford University |
16:35 | Prehistoric Treasures from Cumbria: Tullie House Museum Acquisitions & Artefacts recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme Dot Boughton, freelance archaeological services |
Hansel and Gretel in Neolithic Yorkshire: what might they teach us of the stone axe distribution routes? David P. Davidson |
17:00 | Living among the monuments: lithic scatters in the Vale of Eden, Cumbria Antony Dickson, Annie Hamilton-Gibney and Aaron Watson |
“Follow the groove, man.” An exploration of the role of wayfaring and movement in the landscape of the Langdale axe factories, Cumbria Marnie Calvert, University of Glasgow |
17:25 | END | END |
17:30-18:30 Self-guided gallery tour
19:00 Conference dinner. Please either meet in the reception area at 18:30 to walk to the restaurant or meet directly there for dinner at 19:00.
Day 2: Sunday 13th October
10:00 – 10:30 Tea and coffee served in the function room
SESSION 5A and 5B (Lecture Theatre + Meeting Room): 10:00-11:20 | ||
5B: MONUMENTAL LANDSCAPES Meeting Room Chair: Kate Sharpe |
5A: STAINTON Lecture Theatre Chair: Gabrielle Heffernan |
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10:30 | Monuments on the mountains: recent fieldwork at boulder-built structures in the Lake District fells Aaron Watson, Peter Style, Peter Rodgers |
Stainton West and beyond Fraser Brown and Helen Evans, Oxford Archaeology North |
10:55 | The brilliance of the Shap prehistoric landscape Emma Watson, Durham University |
After CNDR: the bigger Neolithic picture Helen Evans, Oxford Archaeology North |
11:20 | Long Meg: at the heart of Neolithic Britain Paul Frodsham |
Social networking in an age without social media. Understanding variation in lithic technology from Late Mesolithic Structures at the site of Stainton West near Carlisle Robert Rhys Needham, UCLAN |
11:45 | END | END |
11:45-12:00 Comfort break
SESSION 6 Closing Discussion (Lecture Theatre) | |
12:00 | Closing discussion: The future of northern Prehistory Led by Paul Frodsham |
12:30 | END |
12:30-13:30: Lunch served in cafeteria
SESSION 7: PREHISTORY IN ACTION Meeting Room |
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13:30 | Workshop – Tullie House Prehistory Schools Session: A Practical Guide Sarah Forster, Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery |
14:30 | Workshop – Axe Knapping James Dilley, Ancient Craft UK |
15:30 | Guided Prehistory Gallery Tour Elsa Price, Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery |
16:30 | Self-Guided gallery time |
17:00 | END |
Regular October 2019 Events
6 October – James IV Memorial Lecture: In the Land of the Giants – a journey through the Dark Ages, Max Adams [TILLVAS]
7 October – Carpow, Corbridge and Carlisle: Roman armour developments in Northern Britain, Dr Jon Coulson [BAS]
9 October – First Farmers in Neolithic Britain: new methods, new interpretations, Prof Peter Rowley-Conwy [NAG]
10 October – Appleby Moot Hall, Marion Barter [APPLEBY]
12 October – An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Church Architecture in Stone and Early Vernacular Buildings focusing on Medieval longhouses and their Post-Medieval derivatives, Alan Newham and Martin Roberts respectively [ALTOGETHER]
12 October – Re-opening the Medieval Castle: micro-stories from material culture, Dr Karen Dempsey [ARCH & ARCH]
12 October – My Favourite Things in the Egypt Centre, Carolyn Graves-Brown [NEAES]
13 October – David Dippie Dixon lectures: Exploring an historic townscape and its hinterland: Wallingford from Saxon to late Medieval, and Bell towers: origins, forms and functions, Prof Neil Christie [CCA]
14 October – Binchester Roman Fort, David Mason [LUNESDALE]
29 October – Rock Art of the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg in South Africa, Aron Mazel [TAS]
30 October – The Manorial Documents Register For Northumberland, Sue Wood [SOCANTS]