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Council meeting

The KAS Trustees will connect online on Saturday June 6th for the 11th Council meeting

2019 Thirsk Prize

The latest Thirsk Prize for a Kent related MA Dissertation was awarded to Andrew Ratcliff for his work on Eccles Roman Villa. the title is available in the KAS Library when access is permitted again.

2013 Hasted Prize

Maureen Green was the winner of the 2013 Hasted Prize for a Kent related PhD Her book, The Green Family of Papermakers and Hayle Mill, was published by Legacy Press in 2018.

Migration in Kent

Work continues on preparing for publication the book on migration in Kent arising from an earlier KAS joint conference with the University of Kent

Maritime Kent

The book on Maritime Kent arising from a KAS joint conference with Canterbury Christ Church University in 2018, will be published by Boydell and Brewer in 2021.

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.

Video - New President-Elect Kerry Brown

Following his recent appointment as President-Elect Kerry Brown introduces himself to members. In this video, Kerry talks about what the Kent Archaeological Society means to him, what its strengths are and his vision for the future of the Society.

Click here to view Kerry's biography

KAS coronavirus statement

With immediate effect all meetings, events, conferences and forums are cancelled. This means that the forthcoming Annual General Meeting in May is cancelled as well as all meetings of Council and the Committees. The Library and our facilities in Marsham Street are now shut and there will be no 2020 season on the Lees Court Estate. Archaeologia Cantiana and Newsletters will be produced as and when practicable.

Kent Archaeological Society Annual Report and Accounts 2019

The Society's Annual Report and Accounts for year ending 31/12/2019 is available on the below link. Read our core objectives and about our plans for the future.

https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/2019-annual-report

A Frankish buckle from Bifrons Anglo-Saxon Cemetery

The KAS recently received a research enquiry from Vienna, from a researcher studying Globasnitz Ostrogothic cemetery in Carinthia, Austria. She had come across an old published photograph of a buckle from Bifrons Anglo-Saxon cemetery, part of the KAS Collection, which seemed to be the only good counterpart to an example at Globasnitz. She was keen to get more information about the find and its context and a better photograph. Her particular interest is in the buckle itself, rather than its decorative fittings.

Oxford Dictionary of Family Names during lockdown

For a short period of time the Oxford Dictionary of Family Names has made its database available for free.

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"This huge, new dictionary is the ultimate reference work on family names of the UK, covering English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Cornish, and immigrant surnames. It includes every surname that currently has more than 100 bearers, and those that had more than 20 bearers in the 1881 census."

Archaeology and Climate Change Conference

The Sussex Archaeological Society have announced details for the October 2020 conference on the theme of archaeology and climate change.

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Kent LiDAR

A new website had been launched which aims to make available imagery from various LiDAR datasets from across the county, including the recently obtained high resolution data covering over 190 square km along the Darent Valley and area of the Sevenoaks Commons, at the western end of the Kent Downs AONB.

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	Date	Title
	Friday 19 Jun 20	Performing Husbandry: Book Culture in young Christopher Marlowe's Kent
	Saturday 20 Jun 20	Natural History of the 16th Century and the Works of Marlowe
	Wednesday 01 Jul 20	Please note that all events linked to the Open Faversham Festival have been cancelled
	Saturday 11 Jul 20	EVENT CANCELLED Coming of the Railway to Faversham
	Sunday 12 Jul 20	EVENT CANCELLED Victorian Faversham
	Saturday 18 Jul 20	EVENT CANCELLED Faversham - Gunpowder in the Town

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