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THE ASSOCIATION FOR ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY LONG WEEKEND SUMMER TOUR – 2010 Friday 9th to Monday 12th July, 2010 FORTS OF THE SAXON SHORE, Part 2 Accommodation at the University of East Anglia, Norwich Non-refundable deposit of £50.00 per person with Booking Form Balance to the Director’s Office by Wednesday, 30th June, 2010 Tour Cost: Double – couple sharing twin room £462.00 Single – en-suite room £376.00 This tour forms the second in the Saxon Shore Forts series of summer excursions, this time looking at the military installations around the coast of Norfolk. The weekend will be based at Broadview Lodge, in comfortable en-suite rooms at the heart of the University of East Anglia campus. There will be a drinks reception before dinner on the Friday evening, which will be a banquet-style dinner to launch the weekend, followed by guest lecture. Among the sites to be visited over the weekend will be: Burgh Castle (Gariannonum), Brancaster (Branodunum), Warham Camp, Caister-on-Sea fort, Reedham Saxon Church, Caistor St. Edmund (Venta Icenorum), and Norwich Castle Museum. We will be joined by Dr. Will Bowden, Nottingham University, who was one of our lecturers at the AGM Symposium at the British Museum. He will escort our party around his research site, the town and civitas capital of Venta Icenorum, Caistor St. Edmund and the current excavations. There will also be another guest guide and three guest lecturers. For full details of the itinerary, see page 27. STUDENT MEMBERS’ TRAVEL FUND Student members between the ages of 16 and 21 who are pursuing a subject related to Roman civilization, may apply to the Director for details. Successful applicants pay the basic £50.00 deposit and the Student Travel Fund subsidises the balance. CUT ALONG DOTTED LINE BOOKING FORM FORTS OF THE SAXON SHORE Part 2 FRIDAY 9th to MONDAY 12th JULY, 2010 I/We would like to reserve . place(s) for the Long Weekend Summer Tour to Norfolk. Name(s): . Address: . Postal Code:. Telephone: . Membership Number(s):. Deposit enclosed:. Cheques should be made payable to: ‘The Association for Roman Archaeology’. Please return Booking Form, together with the non-refundable deposit of £50.00 per person, to: The Director, The Association for Roman Archaeology, 75 York Road, SWINDON, Wiltshire, SN1 2JU. Balance in full to be received by Friday, 25th June, 2010. BOOKING FORM SELF-DRIVE DAY TOUR TO BRIXWORTH AND MARKET HARBOROUGH SATURDAY, 21st AUGUST, 2010 I/We would like to reserve ( . ) place(s) on the Self-Drive Day Tour to Brixworth and Market Harborough. Please find full payment of £ . enclosed (at £18.00 per person). Name(s): . Address: . Postal Code:. Telephone: . Membership Number(s): . Cheques should be made payable to: ‘The Association for Roman Archaeology’. All bookings (with non-refundable Full Payment of £18.00 per person) to: The Director, The Association for Roman Archaeology, 75 York Road, SWINDON, Wiltshire, SN1 2JU. to arrive NO LATER than Friday, 6th August, 2010. (FOR ACCOUNTING PURPOSES, A SEPA R ATE CHEQUE FOR EACH BOOKING FORM WOULD BE APPRECIAT E D ) . CUT ALONG DOTTED LINE THE ASSOCIATION FOR ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY SELF-DRIVE DAY TOUR THE HALLATON TREASURE and ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH, BRIXWORTH Saturday, 21st August, 2010 The day will start at Brixworth Church at 11.00 am £18.00 per person This tour will take us to Leicestershire and Northamptonshire to see the new gallery displaying the Hallaton Treasure in Market Harborough Museum and the Saxon church at Brixworth, extensively built in Roman materials. ALL SAINTS, BRIXWORTH The impressive church of All Saints at Brixworth is one of the largest Saxon churches in Britain, dating from the late seventh or early eighth century. It has been described as “The finest Saxon church north of the Alps.” Built extensively in tiles, bricks and stones quarried from derelict Roman buildings, possibly from a Roman villa north of the church or as far afield as Roman Leicester. It was almost certainly built as a church for a monastic community which was founded by the abbey at Peterborough in AD 675. Brixworth is sited off the A508 approximately 5 miles north of Northampton and 8 miles south of Market Harborough. THE HALLATON TREASURE Now housed in the Harborough Museum, Adam and Eve Street, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, this amazing find was discovered in 2000 by members of the Hallaton Fieldwork Group. The impressive assemblage of material from the site incorporates a hoard of over 5,000 Iron Age coins partially concealed in a Roman decorated silver-gilt cavalry parade helmet, along with a decorative silver mount from a horse trapping, a bronze Celtic tankard handle, a silver bowl, two silver ingots and blue glass eyes from a votive figure. The site is now recognised as having been a Celtic shrine and much of the material had been deposited around the beginning of the Roman period, with evidence suggesting that religious observance continued in the Roman era. Large quantities of pig bones suggest extensive feasting forming part of the rituals at the site. The parade helmet is still undergoing extensive conservation at the British Museum, so at present does not form part of the exhibit. There is however a continuous audio-visual display about the helmet at the museum. Members are advised to bring packed lunches. Tea and coffee will be provided by the Brixworth Friends. After visiting the church we will drive north to Market Harborough. The museum will close at 4.00 pm. BOOKING FORM – OVERSEAS TOUR 2010 ROMANS ON THE RHINE AND THE MOSELLE MONDAY 4th TO MONDAY 11th OCTOBER, 2010 I/We would like to join tour pick-up at: Chippenham Hatts / Chippenham Station / London / Dover. (DELETE AS APPROPRIATE) I/We would like to book ( . ) place(s) for the tour to Roman Germany. Name(s): . Address: . Postal Code:. Telephone: . Membership Number(s):. Cheques should be made payable to: ‘Global West’. All bookings, with Non-refundable Deposit of £150.00 per person to be sent to: The Director, The Association for Roman Archaeology, 75 York Road, SWINDON, Wiltshire, SN1 2JU. Balance of full payment to be received by Monday, 20th September, 2010. (FOR ACCOUNTING PURPOSES, A SEPA R ATE CHEQUE FOR EACH BOOKING FORM WOULD BE APPRECIAT E D ) . CUT ALONG DOTTED LINE THE ASSOCIATION FOR ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY OVERSEAS TOUR 2010 ROMANS ON THE RHINE & THE MOSELLE Monday 4th to Monday 11th October, 2010 Basic Cost: Two sharing Twin/Double room £1,350 each, inclusive Single with supplement £1,500 each, inclusive Half Board Accommodation at Hotels Non-refundable deposit of £150.00 per person with Booking Form The Tour will be restricted to 50 members The Association reserves the right to make amendments to this tour in the event of unforeseen circumstances. The tour will be led by Mike Stone assisted by Grahame Soffe and will make extensive use of local archaeological guides. Due to many requests from our members, the summer study tour will visit sites in Germany centred on Trier, Cologne and Xanten. To give us maximum flexibility and to keep the costs moderate we will be travelling by English Luxury Executive Coach. Global West and Dertour have arranged four pick up points for the coach: 1. Hatts coach depot (Nr. Chippenham). Limited car parking spaces. 2. Chippenham Main Line Railway Station. 3. South of London near M25 (TBC). 4. Dover Port. (Please indicate on the booking form below your chosen pick up point). INTERIM ITINERARY TRIER: Travel direct to Trier, accommodation at Hotel Deutscher Hoff (2 nights). Walking tour of Trier visiting Porta Nigra, Amphitheatre, Romerbruke Bridge, Horrae, Bischofiliches Museum, Cathedral, Aula Palatina, Kaiserthermen Baths and Rheninshes Landesmuseum. COLOGNE: Accommodation in Mercure Hotel (2 nights). Walking tour visiting Praetorium or Governor’s Palace, City Walls, Aula Regia, Saint Maria im Kapital, Cathedral and Romisch-Germanisches Museum. XANTEN: Accommodation in Hotel Nibelungen Xanten (2 nights). Visiting the site of Colonia Ulpia Traiana, with reconstructions of Mansio, Taberna, Baths, Gates, Temples, Amphitheatre and the nearby Legionary Amphitheatre at Birten. Visits to smaller sites near Trier, Cologne and Xanten are being finalised by our German Travel Company and will be advised in the near future. En route home, overnight stay at Hotel Ibis, Brugge Centrum. ALDERNEY’S ‘SHORE FORT’ The small fort in Alderney, known the Channel Islands suggest the route in each of the compartments formed locally as the Nunnery, is a puzzle. had been in use since the Late Bronze were a quern and pottery, including Alderney was inhabited during the Age (Sebire 2005, 97 - 8). Roman Samian (p. 257). Fru s t r a t i n g l y, the Roman period. The Nunnery looks period evidence for the trade route exact location of this structure, which like a Roman fortlet or maybe a was found at Fishbourne Roman villa: to me sounds like a barracks, is not signalling tower. But is it a Shore w a t e r- w o rn boulders (pro b a b l y recorded. He also describes a Roman Fort? ballast) found there include stones c remation burial close to the f rom Aldern e y, Guern s e y, Jersey, foundations of The Nunnery, and Alderney is the third largest Channel Brittany and Cornwall. another on Raz island (pp. 2 4 7 , Island, three and a half miles long 258 - 9). and between half and one and a half Excavations in Guernsey suggest that miles wide. Strong tidal races St. Peter Port, Guernsey was an B a ron von Hügel excavated the separate the island from France, important port from the first to ‘Longy refuse pit’ to the north-east of which is only eight miles away.
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