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Ticknall & Calke Abbey Visit now on 15th October 2011

Please note the change to the date of our visit, which will now take place a week later than previously announced.

This visit to Calke Abbey lime kilns has now been confirmed for October 15th. Would those coming please meet on the village hall car park at 1pm. There are toilets as well as parking at the village hall.

The ladies of Ticknall will meet us after the visit to the lime yards at Calke, to show us around the pottery sites. We'll meet them at 3pm on the car park of the village hall.

28th September 2011

Autumn Lecture Programme

As the Learning Suite was not available to us on the 9th September, we have been able to add an extra evening in October.

The rooms will be open on the first Friday in October (in addition to the second and fourth) and we are very lucky to have been able to schedule a lecture on that evening, as follows:

Friday 7th October 2011

The Henges of Doveholes and Arbor Low by Martha Lawrence (Buxton Museum and Art Gallery)

The full lecture programme for the Autumn can be seen here

12th September 2011

Hammerwich

We have just (4th September) completed a magnetometry survey at Hammerwich Hall Farm. If you've been following the Hammerwich items on this page (now to be found through the "More news..." link at the bottom of this page), you'll know that earlier this year we carried out a resistivity survey at Hammerwich.

I have created a new Hammerwich page with the story so far (including some new pictures) and you can find this through the "Fieldwork and Trips" menu item on the left. I will add magnetometry results to this page when the data has been processed.

6th September 2011

Training Dig at Norbury Park

The residents of part of a large Victorian house noticed that the ground near to some of the outbuildings had partially collapsed under the weight of a skip lorry. One wheel of the lorry sank into a hole. They suggested that SOTMAS may like to investigate the site as a training exercise.

Accordingly, in May a small number of relatively inexperienced volunteers undertook a resistivity survey and a small excavation with the help of some of our more experienced members. For an informal report and some more pictures, have a look at this Norbury Park page, which you can also reach through the new "Fieldwork and Trips" link in the menu to the left.

23rd August 2011

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