The Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society has arranged another short series of summer lectures to be held online via Zoom during August. The lectures are free and open to all but require individual booking in advance. Details of each lecture is given below, with the booking information. The Zoom links for the lectures will be sent to all registrants a day or two before the event takes place.
Lecture 2
Thursday 8th August 2024 at 7.30 pm
Forty Sites covering forty decades over Forty Years
Dr Steve Sherlock
This talk is about the history and archaeology of North East England, based upon the speaker's experience as a professional archaeologist since 1979. It is not a dry academic account of excavations, but a personal view of forty excavations that cover the geographic area of North Yorkshire and South Durham.
The sites range from a Mesolithic Forest found on the beach at Redcar in 2018, visited by thousands of people in 2018, moving on to encompass Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Roman sites, the excavation of an Anglo-Saxon Princess, Medieval Castles and peasant houses, through to nineteenth century workers' houses, and a 20th-century art deco building. This was Dr Sherlock's "covid project", incorporating sites published as monographs, in county or period journals, as well as some sites that sit in the eternal "grey literature" of a Heritage Environment Record.
Dr Steve Sherlock, a member of the YAS/YAHS since 1990, has worked as an archaeologist in local government in the North East and subsequently on road schemes since 2003. Over the last ten years he has worked as a consultant and heritage advisor on major road schemes including the A14, A47, A428 and now the Lower Thames Crossing. Steve has excavated sites in the North East of all periods from Neolithic to post medieval, and he still undertakes fieldwork at Street House in North East Yorkshire each summer. He is a co-investigator of the Environments of Change project at Waterloo University in Canada. Steve is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Vice President of the Royal Archaeological Institute and a committee member of Tees Heritage Trust.
To register for lecture 2 of the YAHS Summer Lecture Series please use the following link:
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/yahs/t-gammrak