Saturday 10 March 2007, 9:50am-4.30pm
Durham County Council’s Archaeology Department will be holding its 3rd Annual Conference. The day will offer talks on recent archaeological discoveries, community excavations, recording and research. There will be talks on the following subjects:
• Hannah Wiggens, Durham County Council – County Durham Historic Landscape Characterisation project
• David Mason, Durham County Council – The Peter Scott excavations at Piercebridge Roman Fort
• Martin Roberts, English Heritage – Middridge Grange – historic farm building and Grade 1 listed building
• Richard Annis, Archaeological Serives Durham University – Excavations at East Park Sedgefield 2006
• Richard Hewitt, Archaeological Research Services – Archaeological Assessment of the aggregate producing areas of the County Durham Magnesium Limestone plateau
• Robin Taylor-Wilson, Pre-Construct Archaeology – Roman Chester-le-Street
• David Butler, Local Historian – Aykley Heads House, Durham
Tickets must be purchased in advance and are now on sale. Tickets cost £8.50 (the cost has increased slightly this year due to increases in catering costs) and will include a buffet lunch and tea and coffee in the morning and afternoon. There will be stalls in the Durham Room during the morning tea break and lunch which will include local historical and archaeological societies as well as bookstalls.
durham.gov.uk/durhamcc/usp.nsf/pws/Archaeology+2001+-+Archaeology+News+and+Events