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No 6243

Wednesday 9 November 2011

Vol cxlii No 8

pp. 161–191

Societies, etc.

Antiquarian Society

Autumn Conference: Recent archaeology in the Cambridgeshire region

The conference will take place on Saturday, 26 Nov­ember, in room LG18, Faculty of Law, West Road, from 10 a.m. (exhibitions) to 4.30 p.m. (with lunch at 12.45 p.m.). The admission charge will be £5 on the door.

Programme:

Morning from 11 a.m.: ‘Evolution and revolution in public sector archaeologyby Wuniot, by Quinton Carroll; Meet the Jigsaw team, by the Jigsaw team; A Romano- British villa and other discoveries in Peterborough, by Alex Pickstone and Sarah Henley; Recent excavations at Trumpington meadows, by Alison Dickens and Ricky Patten.

Afternoon from 2 p.m.: Clay farm, Trumpington, the story so far, by Richard Mortimer and Tom Phillips; New work at Must farm Bronze Age landscape, by Mark Knight and Kerry Hopper; Heartlands? Further excavations at Skeleton Green, by Mark Hinman and Nick Pankhurst.

Further details are available at http://www.camantsoc.org/downloads/conf10aut.pdf.

Society for the History of the University

The next meeting will be held at 8.30 p.m. in the Old Library, Darwin College, on Thursday, 17 November 2011. Dr Sarah Meer will give a talk entitled Alexander Crummell (1819–1898) and a Cambridge Education. Refreshments will be available from 8 p.m.