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Antiquarian Society

The Society's annual autumn conference, Recent archaeological work in Cambridgeshire, will be held on Saturday, 22 November 2008, between 10 a.m. and 5.30 p.m., in the Law Faculty Building, West Road.

There will be free entry to exhibitions of artefacts and recent work from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. Talks will be given from 11.30 a.m. onwards.

An admission fee of £3.00 is payable at the door.

The programme will be as follows:

10 a.m. - Exhibitions and displays of artefacts and recent work.

11.30 a.m. - Welcome, by Carenza Lewis, President.

11.35 a.m. - Cambridgeshire Historic Environment: report and update, by the Cambridgeshire County Council Historic Environment Team.

12 noon - Introducing Oxford Archaeology East, by Paul Spoerry and David Jennings.

12.45 p.m. to 1.30 p.m. - Lunch and CBA Mid-Anglia Group AGM.

1.30 p.m. - Life in the loop: investigations of a prehistoric and Romano-British landscape, by Mike Luke.

2 p.m. - Iron Age and Roman settlement in the River Great Ouse valley: Little Paxton quarry, by Alex Jones.

2.30 p.m - A riverine prehistory: Over investigations 2007-08, by Christopher Evans and Jonathan Tabor.

3 p.m. to 3.40 p.m. - Tea.

3.40 p.m. - Understanding the transition from Roman to Saxon in Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire through skeletal evidence, by David Klingle.

4 p.m. - Car Dyke and the Roman pottery: the project, by Stephen Macaulay.

4.45 p.m. - Close.