Springtime, as well as marking the beginning of the museum season for many smaller and volunteer-run sites, and the opening of the fieldwork season for research and voluntary excavations, is also conference season. There are several regular annual archaeology conferences around this time in North West England including the Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society conference I mentioned in my last blog, and others such as the Lancaster and Merseyside archaeology Conferences.
One of the oldest running is the CBA North West Archaeology conference, which traces its beginnings as a regular event back to the 1970s, although CBA Group 5, as it was then, first held conference events in the 1950s. Its not too late to book for this year’s CBA North West conference, although as its Saturday 27th April time is limited.
Talks will include:
- Rob Philpott: “Excavations on Early Medieval Sites in Wirral: Light on the Dark Ages”
- Jenny Dean (Stockport Heritage Library): “Lost and Found in Stockport Archives”
- Lunch
- Sue Stallibrass: “Food Miles in the Past: Where did the Roman army in northern Britain get their food”.
- Dan Garner (Dee Archaeology): “The Bunbury Bread Oven”
- Patrick Maloney (Wigan Archaeological Society): “The Aspull Ring Ditch: an update”
The venue for the conference is the Liverpool Quaker Meeting House at 22 School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BT. Tickets are available via Eventbrite or may be purchased at the door, will cost £12.50 for members and £15 for non-members. The link to Eventbrite is https://tinyurl.com/mt463ab9
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