Programme

Our meetings for the year ahead can be found here.
Lectures will be held at 2pm via Zoom apart from 16th May which will be delivered face to face at the Swarthmore Centre in Leeds at 2pm.

20th September 2025
Mary Anne Slater, York Archaeology
* Excavations on a Roman site at Skeffling

15th November 2025
Jason Monaghan, archaeologist and author
* A Yorkshire-style small Roman fort on Alderney

17th January 2026
Roger White, University of Birmingham
* Wroxeter: Breaking New Ground

21st March 2026
Eva Mol, University of York
* Nilotic scenes in the Roman world: visions of Egyp

16th May 2026
Jeremy Taylor, University of Leicester
* Excavations at Irchester
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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