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Tuesday 4th November 2025 7:30pm – BAS Finds Group

This meeting will be devoted to  pottery finds and  in particular the data we are collecting about them and the structure of a finds report. 

The agenda for this meeting is:

  1. 19:30 Welcome
  2. 19:35 Pottery finds: a presentation by Andrew Hutt 
    •  This will deal with:
      •   The contents of pottery reports
      •   Establishing pottery groups and reference collections
      •   Developing tables in the finds report from the spreadsheets and tables we have been developing
  3. 20:20 refreshments
  4. 20:40 Wickham pottery finds: using the Wickham pottery groups
    This second phase is practical work so we may close the Zoom session
  5. 21:30 End

Please note that the meeting fee is £3 per head

Committee Room, Woosehill Community Centre, Emmview Cl, Wokingham RG41 3DA. Starting 19:30 and ending 21:30 (please don’t arrive before 19:15). 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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Wednesday 5th November 2025 – BAS Study Group

This meeting is a presentation by Philip Rawstron on the current geophysics survey at Wickham.

He is going to start by explaining the survey and its results.   After refreshments he will discuss the different types of equipment that has been employed during this survey.

2:30 to 4:30pm. Please do not arrive before 2:15pm

This meeting will also be available on zoom. To register to attend please email Andrew on andrew.hutt(at)berksarch.co.uk*

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

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Saturday 15th November 2025 – BAS AGM & Lecture: Ivan Margary

BAS Annual General Meeting

Agenda and papers will be sent to members by email

followed by:

Ivan Donald Margary (1896-1976): An Officer, Gentleman, Scholar & Philanthropist

by Dr David Rudling FSA, MCIFA

Ivan Margary is best known for his major contributions towards the study of Roman roads in Britain. He is less well known, however, for numerous other contributions, both practical involvement and/or financial, towards other facets of our cultural heritage, other disciplines, education, and to his local community. This lecture will consider both the life of Margary generally, and his various contributions to archaeology specifically.

Ivan Margary as a young man

David is the Academic Director at Sussex Archaeology and History. Previously, he was Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Sussex, and prior to this Director of Archaeology South-East which is part of University College London.

David started work in Sussex in 1980 having completed an MA in Roman Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, London. David has directed a wide range of fieldwork on sites of various periods throughout Sussex, notable sites including the Roman villas at Bignor, Beddingham, Barcombe and Plumpton, a Roman tile kiln at Hartfield, two Romano-Celtic temples at Chanctonbury Ring, a Middle Bronze Age settlement site at Downsview on the Brighton Bypass, and various medieval urban sites in Hastings, Lewes and Winchelsea. David’s main research interests are Roman rural settlements and land-use, religion and ritual in Roman Britain, and ancient and medieval coins. David is Chairman of the Brighton and Hove Archaeological Society.

Sussex Archaeology and History run free online lectures the third Wednesday of the month. See more at www.sussexarchaeology.org