Council for British Archaeology Festival Société Jersiaise Programme 13th to 28th July 2019

All events are free. No booking required. Enquiries: Société Jersiaise Office, Tel: 758314 or John de Carteret of the Archaeology Section: Tel. 07797 715979. E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.societe-jersiaise.org

Saturday 13th July Thursday 18th July ’s Eastern Railway All About Teeth: a Workshop Historian Johnathan Bull takes us on a circular walk in Dental Anthropology around the St Clement route of the Eastern Railway, talking about its conception in 1873 and its demise What can people’s teeth tell us about past in 1929, and calling in at Samarès Station, Pontorson populations, of they way people lived and their Halt and Le Hocq Station. We will continue and experiences? Join osteologist Rosalind Le Quesne to follow the route to the Le Hocq bridge and cutting, learn how our teeth can reveal long lost secrets. with Pontac in the distance, and return to our start point along the beach. Time: 7.30pm Price: Free Time: 10.00am Meet: Société Jersiaise, Pier Road Price: Free Parking: Free at Pier Road car park Meet: In front of St Clement Parish Hall Guide: Rosalind Le Quesne Parking: Free parking at St Clement Parish Hall Grade: Talk / Hands on workshop Guide: Johnathan Bull, local historian Tuesday 16th July Grade: Wear good walking shoes as this is a 2 hour walk A unique tour of the archaeology galleries at La Hougue Bie Museum with Olga Finch, Curator of Archaeology with Jersey Heritage Olga has been curator since 1994 and has also worked on many excavations in Jersey including being Saturday 20th July Assistant Director of the major excavations carried Archaeological Field Walk out at La Hougue Bie in the 1990s. Olga will tour the galleries using the objects to tell Jersey’s amazing Frank Falle, local historian, has kindly allowed us to Sunday 14th July archaeological stories from the Ice Age at La Cotte conduct a field walk as part of this festival. On an de St Brelade, 250,000 years ago to the Iron Age and archaeological field walk, the area to be investigated University of York and Jersey the incredible Le Catillon II coin hoard discovery - is divided into large pegged-out squares. Each Heritage guided tour of giving background details about the excavations and participant walks up and down inside their square, the significance of the many objects on display. checking the ground surface for any small finds. The Elizabeth Castle excavation position of finds is then recorded to make a finds map and WWII fortifications Time: 7.30pm of the area. This gives a good indication of where Price: Free and what type of past activities have been occurring. The Elizabeth Castle project will continue its Meet: La Hougue Bie An archaeologist will be on hand to help you identify excavation of the fascinating lost Long Barracks on Parking: Free parking at La Hougue Bie or in the field finds. You can stay for as little or as much time as you the Green, seeking to address a number of questions next door like between 11:00-15:00. raised during last year’s dig. Having documented the Guide: Olga Finch, Curator, Jersey Heritage Trust Hospital in 2018, this year the Buildings Archaeology Grade: Fairly even, unless parking in the field Time: 11am to 3pm and Conservation teams will be examining the Price: Free castle’s WWII sites (including personnel bunkers, Meet: The field to the west of La Hougue Bie casemates, and gun emplacements). As well main entrance as recording these sites, we will consider their Parking: Free in the field to the west of La Hougue Bie condition, and how they might be interpreted and Guide: Société Jersiaise Archaeology Section presented to the public. Normal entrance fees will Grade: Rough. Wear good walking shoes apply if you wish to visit the rest of the castle and you are not a member of the Société Jersiaise or Jersey Heritage.

Time: 9.30am at West Park slipway for 10 at the castle Price: Free entrance provided by Jersey Heritage Meet: West Park slip at 9.30 Parking: Free at car parks in town Guide: Dav Smith, Associate Lecturer in Archaeology Grade: Wear good waterproof walking shoes Sunday 21st July Thursday 25th July Sunday 4th August La Collette Martello tower St Saviour’s church graveyard La Cotte de St Brelade and barracks The graveyard contains a wealth of historical and exploring the characters with interesting histories, ranging from We are delighted to say that the Jersey Field Lillie Langtry to aristocratic French Revolution Neanderthal landscapes Squadron have kindly agreed to us visiting Le Collette refugees. The Reverend Peter Dyson was barely Barracks and Tower. The barracks pre-date the tower able to scratch the surface at last year’s Festival, so of the by some 30 years. The walk will be led by Frank Falle, we’re back again for the next instalment, and to find Not only is La Cotte one of the archaeological local historian, who will place the barracks and tower out what else he has uncovered about his long gone treasures of the Channel Islands, it is also one of the into the chronology of Jersey’s history, in addition to parishioners. He says there are three royal scandals principle Palaeolithic sites in Europe. Dr Matt Pope, providing a technical background to their architecture linked with the churchyard, together with a regicide from University College London, is again in the island and construction. who signed Charles I’s death warrant – oh, and a to explore our prehistoric past. This is an exciting Bailiff accused of judicial murder…. opportunity to learn from members of a major team Time: 2 - 4pm working on one of the UK’s most influential sites. The Free Price: Time: 5.30pm deposits found there contain hundreds and thousands Small car park / turning area at the top of Meet: Price: Free of Neanderthal stone tools, together with their Mount Bingham Meet: St Saviour’s church animal prey which included herd animals like horse, Free at Pier Road car park Parking: Parking: Free at St Saviour’s church and by the mammoth, and reindeer. Over the 190,000 years Guide: Frank Falle, Local Historian Parish Hall across the road when Neanderthals used la Cotte, the surrounding Easy Grade: Guide: Reverend Peter Dyson landscape changed dramatically. Rough. Wear good walking shoes Grade: Grade: Easy, although uneven off the paths Time: 2.30pm Price: Free Meet: Ouaisne slip Parking: Free at Ouaisne car park Guide: Dr Matt Pope Grade: Uneven – water proof shoes required

Saturday 27th July Open evening at La Hougue Bie Jersey Heritage have very kindly opened up this ancient site to offer a free evening for all. Enter into Tuesday 23rd July one of Europe’s finest passage graves, and visit the recently completed Long House. Discover Jersey’s On Sorrowful Tides: Jersey and Neolithic history at this tranquil and spiritual heritage the loss of HMS Charybdis and site. Visit the medieval chapel or stroll the grounds to explore Jersey’s archaeological history and WWII HMS Limbourne, German Command Bunker. The museum exhibitions include the world’s largest Celtic coin hoard, with its – talk by Ian Ronayne gold torques and silver ingots. Experts are on hand The small war cemetery in Howard Davis Park is a to discuss every aspect of this wonderful site with beautiful resting place for those Allied servicemen you. who died on and around Jersey during the Second World War. The majority share the same date of Time: 6.30pm to 8pm death, 23 October 1943, and served in the same Royal Price: Free Navy ship, HMS Charybdis. In this talk, local military Meet: La Hougue Bie historian Ian Ronayne will retell the story of HMS Parking: Free at La Hougue Bie Charybdis and its doomed crew. He will examine how Guide: Various guides it was these men came to be buried in Jersey and Grade: Easy in general, but can be uneven how islanders and occupiers dealt with the sensitive matter of commemorating those viewed as both friends and enemies.

Time: 7pm Price: Free Meet: Société Jersiaise, 7 Pier Road, St Helier Parking: Free at Pier Road car park Guide: Ian Ronayne, Local Historian Grade: Easy

Participants are responsible for their own safety. Please wear suitable footwear.