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Shornemead Fort - Report of Watching Brief part two

Shornemead Fort - Report of Watching Brief part two from 2008.

Shornemead Fort - Report of Watching Brief part one

Shornemead Fort - Report of Watching Brief part one from 2008.

Winter 2021 KAS Magazine

There has been an extension to the deadline for articles or other content for the KAS Magazine. The Winter 2021 edition will become the Spring 2022 edition to enable the Editor Richard Taylor to fit in some important news about events scheduled for late 2021.

If you would like to submit content for the Magazine, contact Richard at richard.taylor@kentarchaeology.org.uk

Defending Kent During The Great War

Defending Kent During The Great War

KAS President Kerry Brown meets Professor Robin Fleming

Professor Robin Fleming of Boston College interviewed by KAS President Kerry Brown.

Click here to watch the video.

This interview is in place of the recording of a talk in September that Professor Fleming gave as one of the KAS series of live events (see link below for details of the initial talk).

Announcements

Don't forget to regularly check our Upcoming Events section and fill your diary with these interesting and diverse offerings throughout the county, events are constantly being updated and if you have an event you would like to have added, contact the web team.

Publication launch: Maritime Kent Through the Ages

Maritime Kent cover

Online Event - PROFESSOR ROBIN FLEMING: "DO THINGS MADE IN FIFTH-CENTURY BRITAIN HAVE ETHNICITY?"

On Tuesday September 14th at 19.00 UK time the Kent Archaeological Society are delighted to be hosting a talk by esteemed academic and Professor of History at Boston College Robin Fleming, She has written on the political history of viking, Anglo-Saxon, and Anglo-Norman England; English law before the Common Law; Domesday Book; and late-Roman and early medieval material culture.

The Allen Grove Fund 2021

The Kent Archaeological Society is pleased to advise that it is re-starting and re-launching the Allen Grove Fund.

Further details about the fund and the application form can be found here:

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Aerial Photo Explorer

Historic England have over 400,000 digitised photos taken from their aerial photo collections now available to search online.

Click on this link to access their website - https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/archive/collections/aerial-photos/

Aerial map of Kent

KAS collections - Portrait of Anne Wyatt/Twysden

Anne Wyatt Twysden

The Romano-British villa and Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Eccles

On Thursday the 7th April there will be a mini conference to host the launch of a monograph summarising the excavations at Eccles (1962-76) and assessing the significance of the central and lower Medway valley during the 1st millennium AD.

Steve Cosh (the Roman villa) and Nick Stoodley (the Anglo-Saxon cemetery) present an overview and discussion of the more significant results to emerge from this work.

Smallhythe excavations: lecture TOMORROW

Nathalie Cohen, National Trust Archaeologist, will talk about the exciting recent excavations at Smallhythe in Kent:

"Perhaps best known today as the former home of Victorian actress Ellen Terry and her daughter Edy Craig, during the medieval period, Smallhythe was a location for royal shipbuilding and, as we found in summer 2021, it was also a hive of activity some 2,000 years ago."

For more details on how to attend click here...

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Publication launch: Maritime Kent Through the Ages

Online Event - PROFESSOR ROBIN FLEMING: "DO THINGS MADE IN FIFTH-CENTURY BRITAIN HAVE ETHNICITY?"

The Allen Grove Fund 2021

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