PROGRAMME FOR THE YEAR 2009

 (Meetings on Thursday Evenings at 7.30 pm at Boston Spa School, Room PE
 --  unless otherwise informed or shown below.)
 

Sun 4,11 Jan

(Reserve 18 Jan) Fieldwork sessions: recording Moat House, Wighill (with report to follow)
 

Thu 29 Jan

Dave Weldrake: Archaeology of Springs and Wellheads
 

Thu 5 Feb

Visit with South Leeds Archaeology Group:
Behind the Scenes at Leeds Museum
 

Thu 26 Feb

:Martin Roe: Archaeology of Quarries and Caves
 

Thu 26 Mar

Trish Colton & Diane Holloway: Yorkshire Knights Templar: Their Life & Times
 

Thu 30 Apr 

Above Ground Archaeology (AGA)
Presentations by members (eg. Slide Preview of the ‘Walk Through Time’; Moat House news; Julie Barnes on ‘Windows of Thorp Arch’; Slide & Sound Preview of the July ‘Bat Watch Walk’)
 

Sun 3 May

A Walk Through Time in Boston Spa and Thorp Arch (involving archaeology, ecology, geology and history): led by Malcolm
 

Thu 28 May

Experimental Archaeology Evening: Part 1, at Treasurer’s House
 

Sun 28 June

Experimental Archaeology: Part 2 with BBQ at Treasurer’s House
 

Sun 30 July

Bat Watch Walk: led by Barry and Anne Wright. Meet Boston Spa Churchyard 8.30 pm
 

Sun 30 Aug

Don Henson and Roger Martlew: Recent Work On A Neolithic to Modern Site Near Grassington: A day in the Dales
 

Thu 24 Sept

Annual General Meeting and talk/slide show.
 

Thu 29 Oct 

Above Ground Archaeology (AGA)
Presentations by members: (eg. Derek Gaunt on ‘Interpreting Dam House’; Malcolm Barnes on ‘Developing the Fields Names Project’ and/or ‘BS Riverside Survey’; Diana Clifford on ‘Primrose Lane Quarry/Tip Finds’
 

Thu 27 Nov

Malcolm Barnes: Hebridean Archaeology and Heritage       
 

Thu 10 Dec

Christmas Social (Boston Spa Scout Hall) Food, drink, quiz & entertainment.
 

Ongoing work:
Site recording & reports, website, database, flint drawing, archaeobotany, field names project, AGA project and excavations.

(Note: Informal IT Archaeology sessions to learn about IT technology
and Website Archaeology - available monthly by arrangement, at the
Train-IT centre, Garforth),  plus an evening on preparing Powerpoint presentations (date to be arranged).