PROGRAMME FOR THE YEAR 2008

 (Meetings on Thursday Evenings at 7.30 pm at
Boston Spa Comprehensive School, Room PE unless otherwise informed.)
 

Thu 31 Jan

Rod Mackay (East Riding Archaeology Society): Yorkshire Chariot Burials in a wider context.
 

Thu 28 Feb

Martin Lunn (York Museum): Astronomy and Archaeology.
 

Thu 27 Mar

Mike Bowers (BSDCAG): The Pyramids and the Nile.
 

Sun 6 April

AGA Walk: Clifford Village (Meet 9.30 am at the cross.)
 

Thu 24 Apr 

Graham Derbyshire (TBS): Towton Battlefield.
 

Thu 29 May

 Experimental Archaeology (Treasurer’s Garden).
 

Thu 26 June

Dave Weldrake (WYAS): A Guided Walk around some of the History & Archaeology of Barwick – (Meet at Barwick village maypole at 7.15pm.)
 

Sun 29 June

Experimental Archaeology and BBQ (Treasurer’s Garden).
 

Thu 4 Sept

Annual General Meeting and talk/slide show.
 

Thu 25 Sept

Vin Davis (Implement Petrology Group): How & Why Are Stones Chosen? Examples from Boston Spa excavations and elsewhere.
 

Thu 30 Oct 

Above Ground Archaeology (AGA) & Archaeobotany Presentations by members.
 

Thu 27 Nov

Shaun Richardson: The Archaeology of Viewing: Medieval Gardens to C20th Defences.
 

Thu 11 Dec

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

Ongoing work:
Site reports, website, database, flint drawing, petrology, archaeobotany, AGA project and excavations.