Programme 2026: Key events
Prehistory Research Section events:
2026
May
Members’ Morning Saturday 16th May 2026, 11am - 12.30pm.
Tea/ coffee is available from 10.45am.
Two in-person talks.
Venue: Room 4 at St George’s Centre, 60 Great George Street, LEEDS, LS1 3DL
Debbie Hallam: An Early Bronze Age gold lunula from Grassington in the Yorkshire Dales.
The recent discovery of a gold lunula near Grassington raises new questions about Early Bronze Age culture, belief systems, and long-distance connections within the Yorkshire Dales hinterland. In an area that is well known for 'stones and bones' it is a rare find indeed for the region. This talk will make comparisons with other known examples, whilst also examining the importance of the surrounding landscape context and why it might have been chosen for the deposition of a prestige artefact, during period 2400-2000 BC.
Benjamin Potts: What can a single carved stone in Adel reveal about prehistoric thought?
This talk uses the Adel Lozenge Stone as a starting point to explore Britain and Ireland's wider geometric tradition - from Avebury’s avenues to the Folkton and Burton Agnes drums. Drawing on archaeological evidence, systems thinking, and landscape analysis, we’ll examine how geometry, rather than figurative art, became a key language of prehistoric cosmology, and consider how and where the Adel stone, and Yorkshire, fits within this broader network of symbols.
September
5th September. Joint Prehistoric Society meeting.
2pm. Leeds Museum. Dr. Jess Bates from York University, talk title TBC. Ticketsource bookings will open in June.
December
5th December. Christmas Meeting
Tea/coffee served from 10.45, talk 11 - 12.30. Dr Peter Halkon ‘From elephants to chariots: exploring the changing prehistoric landscape of the Foulness Valley, East Yorkshire’
Possible Archaeological Events for Your Diary:
Guest Lectures (open to all)
Bradford University: School Archaeological and Forensic Science guest lectures series.
Lectures start at 5.30pm - search SAFS guest lecture series on Ticketsource
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Above programme updated 24/4/26