81687_SAS/AnnualReport/2006/2007 30/10/07 10:43 Page 1 SURREY ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Society member Mrs N Cowland working on Trench 4 of the Ashstead Villa excavation ANNUAL REPORT 2006-2007 81687_SAS/AnnualReport/2006/2007 30/10/07 10:43 Page 2 2 81687_SAS/AnnualReport/2006/2007 30/10/07 10:43 Page 3 CONTENTS Council and Board of Directors ............................................................................. 4 Honorary Vice-Presidents .................................................................................... 4 Registered Office (address, e-mail address, telephone and fax) .......................... 5 Auditors and Examiners ....................................................................................... 5 Investment managers ........................................................................................... 5 Company and Charity Registration numbers ........................................................ 5 Annual Report: General ........................................................................................................ 6 Finance ........................................................................................................ 9 Investment Report ........................................................................................ 10 Reports from Committees ............................................................................ 10 Reports from Groups .................................................................................... 17 Honorary Local Secretaries .......................................................................... 20 Historic Buildings Committee, Council and Committes ................................. 23 Representation ............................................................................................. 24 Staff and Working Hours .............................................................................. 24 Annual Accounts Directors’ Report .......................................................................................... 23 Auditors’ Report ........................................................................................... 24 Income and Expenditure Account ................................................................ 26 Balance Sheet .............................................................................................. 27 Statement of Financial Activities ................................................................. 28 Notes to the Accounts ................................................................................. 29 Detailed Income and Expenditure Account .................................................. 33 Appendix 1: Grants Paid or Approved ......................................................... 34 Appendix 2: Annual Events .......................................................................... 34 Notices ................................................................................................................. 35 ISSN 0309-7897 3 81687_SAS/AnnualReport/2006/2007 30/10/07 10:43 Page 4 COUNCIL AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS Patron: Mrs S Goad, JP, Lord Lieutenant of Surrey President: Mr K D Graham, FSA Past Presidents: The Viscountess Hanworth, DL, FSA D J Turner, BSc, FSA, FSAScot R F Muir Professor A G Crocker, DSc, FInstP, CEng, FSA Miss A J Monk Vice-Presidents: G P Moss, BSc, PhD, ARCS Mrs G M Crocker, BA FSA Mrs A C Graham A C Sargent, BA, FCA P A Tarplee Professor E Fernie, CBE, FSA Ms J English D G Bird, BA, PhD, FSA Honorary Officers: Secretary: P E Youngs, BA Treasurer: A C Sargent, BA, FCA Joint Editors: Mrs A C Graham; Ms S Hill Editor of the Bulletin: P Jones Librarian: (vacant) Legal Adviser: A M Jackson Elected Members: Retire 2007: Mrs M E Broomfield, Mrs G A Rapson, C E A Walker Retire 2008: A J Bott, G C Brown, Ms T J Cole, Mrs R J Hooker, Mrs R Hunter, Mrs P F Reading Retire 2009: Mrs A M Gaitonde, Mrs J A Hicks, J G Price, J M Rubra, R W Williams Retire 2010: Mrs J Balchin, Miss E Corke, P Harp, A Norris, R Savage Co-opted Members: R A Bryson, D W Williams HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENTS: R D Shepherd, OBE S S Frere, CBE, MA, DLitt, FBA Mrs E S Eames, MBE, MSA, MLitt, FSA, FSAScot F A Hastings, BEM F W Holling, FSA Mrs A Watson Miss J M Carter Mrs V Ettlinger S E D Fortescue, BA J L Gower, BSc, PhD E E Harrison, MA, FSA D F Renn, CBE, PhD, FIA, FSS, FSA Mrs P C Nicolaysen Mrs G M Harvey, BA, MCLIP J N Hampton, OBE, FSA D C H Combe 4 81687_SAS/AnnualReport/2006/2007 30/10/07 10:43 Page 5 REGISTERED OFFICE: Castle Arch, Guildford, Surrey GU1 3SX (Telephone & Fax: 01483 532454) (e-mail: [email protected]) (web: www.surreyarchaeology.org.uk) AUDITORS AND EXAMINERS: M G Beattie & Co Limited 6 Main Avenue, Moor Park, Northwood, Middx HA6 2HJ INVESTMENT MANAGERS: HSBC Investments, 78 St James’s Street, London SW1A 1HL COMPANY REGISTRATION NO: 1160052 REGISTERED CHARITY NO: 272098 5 81687_SAS/AnnualReport/2006/2007 30/10/07 10:43 Page 6 SURREY ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORT 2006-2007 The 152nd Annual Report of the Surrey Archaeological Committee and the 33rd Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the incorporated Surrey Archaeological Society. This report and the accompanying Accounts are for the period 1st April 2006 to 31st March 2007. GENERAL Introductory It is with great sadness that the death of the following members is recorded: G Bavin, D E Bourke, R O Chalkley, Miss J E Collins, Mrs J Goddard, G Hayes, J Oliver, K R Pringle and Miss A J Wilkinson. The Annual General Meeting of the Society was held on 25th November 2006 at Reigate Priory School by kind permission of the Head Teacher and in the presence of Mrs S Gould JP, Lord Lieutenant of Surrey and the Society’s Patron. Miss A J Monk retired as President at the end of her term of office. K D Graham was elected as President for the forthcoming year. The serving Honorary Vice-Presidents were re-elected; in addition, J N Hampton and D C H Combe were elected as Honorary Vice-Presidents in recognition of their services to the Society. The serving Vice-Presidents were re-elected; in addition Miss A J Monk and Dr D G Bird were elected as Vice-Presidents. The serving Honorary Officers were re-elected but the office of Honorary Librarian remained vacant. The following members of the Society were elected to serve as ordinary Members of Council to retire in 2010 in accordance with Article 21a of the Society’s Articles of Association: Mrs J M Balchin, Miss E Corke, P Harp, A V Norris, and R W Savage. J M Boult, J F Cotton, Mrs P A Hulse and C J Van der Lande retired from Council on completion of their terms of office, Dr R A Christopher also retired. N J Bateman had retired previously for personal reasons. M G Beattie & Co Limited were appointed as Auditors and Council was authorised to determine their remuneration. Responding to his election as President, Mr Graham paid tribute to Miss Monk’s untiring work for the Society as President and formerly as Honorary Secretary. Mr Graham presented Miss Monk with a copy of a Hassell watercolour. After the main business of the meeting Mrs Goad introduced J McInally who described the Reigate Priory murals formerly attributed to Verrier and his research into their true attribution. Accommodation The situation about the future of the Society’s accommodation in Guildford Museum remains unchanged. As has been reported previously, in 2003 Guildford Borough Council issued a Notice to terminate the Agreement governing the Society’s occupation of its accommodation, to take effect from 14th April 2008. The Society is entitled to a new lease for the existing accommodation and has to give formal notice of its intentions later in 2007. In these circumstances, whilst not presuming a break with the Society’s long association with Guildford, the Council of the Society has authorised the Society’s Officers to explore alternative options for meeting its future accommodation needs and to assess the potential cost of those options and their impact on the Society’s financial position. 6 81687_SAS/AnnualReport/2006/2007 30/10/07 10:43 Page 7 Meanwhile the Society continues to rent commercial storage at Cranleigh but it was possible to relinquish some of this following the taking of a lease, on very favourable terms, of a small building at Bletchingley known as The Granary. This latter provides storage for publications, working space for the Artefacts and Archives Research Group with room for occasional meetings. The Society is very grateful to Mrs Goad for her good offices in making this possible. Activities Seven editions of the Society’s Bulletin were published during the year providing an anthology of the Society’s multifarious activities. A noticeable feature is the extent to which archaeology and historical (ie documentary) research complement each other and with this in mind a successful course on Palaeography and ways into History ran from September to November 2006. The Society does not work in isolation. Thus an excavation at Hatch Furlong, Ewell, which the Society supported financially, involved members of the Society working as volunteers alongside members of the Epsom and Ewell Historical and Archaeological Society and students of Birkbeck College; the interest in the excavation shown by children from local schools was particularly pleasing. In another instance, the dendrochronological (tree ring dating) survey of timber-framed buildings, undertaken in conjunction with the Domestic Buildings Research Group (DBRG), has been almost completed. The project, which is partly financed