Category Archives: Upcoming Event

Wednesday 6th March 2024 – BAS Study Group

AGENDA:

  • Proposal for new BAS surveying equipment, by James Peddle
  • Interpreting Blounts Court : This work has reached the point were we have identified 5 phases of development on the site.  This is a case of the longer you work with the site and the excavation results, the simpler it gets.

Committee Room, Woosehill Community Centre, Emmview Cl, Wokingham RG41 3DA and on Zoom. Starting 14:30 and ending 16:30. There is ample parking alongside the Community Centre and in the adjacent Morrisons supermarket car park.

Please note that the meeting fee is £3 per head

This meeting will also be conducted on Zoom. Regular participants will receive an email with login details. Anyone else wishing to join should contact Andrew Hutt on andrew_hutt(at)talktalk.net

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Tuesday 5th March 2024 – BAS Finds Group

Agenda:

Committee Room, Woosehill Community Centre, Emmview Cl, Wokingham RG41 3DA. Starting 19:30 and ending 21:30. There is ample parking alongside the Community Centre and in the adjacent Morrisons supermarket car park.

Anyone else wishing to join should contact Andrew Hutt on andrew_hutt(at)talktalk.net

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Saturday 16th March 2024 BAS Lecture: Iron-ing it out, nail-ing it down

A new multi-period methodology and typology for recording structural iron nails

By Kate Manby, University of Reading

Structural iron nails are the most common iron-find type from the Romano-British period onwards, but they have received little sustained attention being perceived as having limited archaeological value. This talk considers how iron nails can reveal information previously lost, such as the lives of objects and structures they were used within, and practices of recycling and deposition across different sites. It follows work conducted on the 5775 nail assemblage from the MOLA/Headland A14 excavations, alongside survey and experimental work. It suggests a new typology and methodology for recording structural iron nails, to maximise the information we can gain from them. This includes new shank morphology recording as indicative of how nails were used and discarded in antiquity. 

Katie Manby is a second year PhD student between the University of Reading and the British Museum. Her current PhD project focuses on first century AD copper-alloy statuettes within the British Museum collection. Previously she studied for an MA at the University of Reading 2021-22 during which she held a funded Highways England studentship with MOLA/Headland infrastructure to study the large structural iron nail assemblage from the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon excavations. Her work focuses generally on metal artefacts from the Roman period. 

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2.00 pm for 2.30 pm at the RISC Centre, London Street, Reading RG1 4PS and from 2:15 on Zoom

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