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The Yorkshire Archaeological & Historical Society

Since 1863

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Programme

Our meetings for the year ahead can be found here.
Lectures will be held at 2pm via Zoom apart from 17th May which will be delivered face to face at the Swarthmore Centre in Leeds at 2pm.

16th November 2024 
Dr Peter Halkon. (Co-Director Petuaria ReVisited Project, Chair ERAS) 
Recent Discoveries in Roman Brough

18th January 2025 
Frank Giecco (Technical Director, Wardell Armstrong LLP)
Carlisle Cricket ground and other discoveries in Roman Carlisle

15th March 2025 
Dr Sadie Watson (MOLA). 
Recent work on the Roman Waterfront and other discoveries in Roman London

17th May 2025 
Nick Hodgson. (Independent Researcher, formerly Principal Keeper of Archaeology, Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums).
South Shields (Arbeia): a late Roman fort and its afterlife 
AGM

Waking the Birdoswald dead

  • Posted On: 1 February 2019

Roman funerary vessels feature at the newly opened Birdoswald Fort visitor centre on Hadrian’s Wall. They originate from the cemetery associated with the fort, situated at the top edge of the cliff overlooking the River Irthing. Rapid erosion threatened the site. To mitigate the loss of archaeology, the Historic England (HE) Excavation and Analysis team excavated part of the cemetery in 2009. This represents the only large-scale investigation of any military cemetery on Hadrian’s Wall and allowed us to explore cremation practice at the northern edge of the Roman Empire.

https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/research/waking-the-birdoswald-dead/

 

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