Mendip Hills AONB Historic Environment Day 2012.

Next year’s popular Annual Mendip Hills AONB Historic Environment day is to be held on Saturday the 24th of March 2012 at Wells & Mendip Museum.

 

Please Note – This Event is now Sold Out.

 

Saturday 24th March 2012 – Wells & Mendip Museum, 8 Cathedral Green, Wells, BA5 2UE

This event has been supported by the Mendip Hills AONB Sustainable Development Fund in collaboration with Wells & Mendip Museum and the Somerset Wildlife Trust

Booking essential – please complete the form – available from the orange link above.

9.30    Registration

9.50    Welcome and introduction

10.00  The Winscombe parish archaeological and historical project: the first two years, by Professor Mick Aston

11.00  Recent research on the Second World War rocket battery near Tynings Farm, by Chris

Webster, HER Officer, Somerset County Council

11.30  Coffee

12.00  The Bishop’s Palace Development Project, by Stuart Milby, Context One Archaeology

12.30  ‘Don’t forget the animals’ Zooarchaeology and the Mendip Hills, by Steve Tofts, CHERT

1.00    Lunch

2.00    The settlements of Mendip: the evolution of buildings and place 1, by Elaine Jamieson, English Heritage

2.30    The settlements of Mendip: the evolution of buildings and place 2, by Barry Jones, English Heritage

3.00    Comfort break

3.10    Chewton Mendip: What can routeway study tell us about settlement development? by Philippa Nabb-Osborne

3.40    Questions

3.50    Close

The cost is £15 per person and includes refreshments and a local produce buffet lunch.