COVID-19 Update
We are looking forward to welcoming you to the 2020-2021 lecture programme at the Museum of London. However, we are following government advice, particularly concerning social distancing. Because of this the lectures will take place online via Zoom until further notice.
The lectures start at 6.30 PM, and last for 1 hour.
Tickets can only be booked through Eventbrite. LAMAS members can request an Eventbrite promo code to obtain free tickets. As usual non-members are very welcome, but a small charge of £2.50 will be levied to help pay for Zoom.
We hope that it will be possible to resume lectures at the Museum before long, and we will e-mail members to notify any changes. Thank you for your understanding.
LAMAS Lecture Programme October 2020 - May 2021
October 13, 2020 |
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Joint Prehistoric Society and LAMAS lecture - Revealing a Late Bronze Age enclosure |
Andrew Peachey, |
Postponed from May 2020 Overlooking the former marshes on the north bank of the River Thames, the soil mark of a square enclosure has been recognised since the 1960s. Recent archaeological excavation in advance of mineral extraction has revealed this to be a Late Bronze Age enclosure with two distinct phases of activity, including roundhouses, and most intriguingly the very carefully located deposit of a group of bronze hoards. This talk will characterise a rare opportunity for the complete excavation of such a monument and explore the artefacts contained within. |
November 10, 2020 |
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Layers of London: putting histories on the map |
Adam Corsini, Layers of London |
Discover how over 250 layers and 9000 public contributions came together to form Layers of London, a free online, crowd-sourced mapping resource that anyone can get involved with. |
December 8, 2020 |
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Additional Kilns of the Roman Thameside Ceramic Zone: Excavations at the land of the former Mardyke Estate, Rainham, London Borough of Havering (postponed from April 2020) |
Eniko Hudak, Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd |
Postponed from April 20120 Excavations at the land of the former Mardyke Estate by Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd in 2013 uncovered three Roman pottery kilns, which were producing local sand- and shell-tempered wares dated to the second quarter of the second century AD. This talk will present the kilns and the pottery produced on site and will consider the kilns together with those of the neighbouring site to the west of the River Beam in their wider context as part of the Thames Estuary or Thameside ceramic production zone. |
January 12, 2021 |
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London Calling: an elsewhere archaeology of the Calais Jungle |
Louise Fowler, MOLA |
This lecture will present the initial results of work by MOLA and collaborators on a group of objects collected by photographer Gideon Mendel at the site of the Jungle camp in Calais, following its demolition in 2016. The project brings time depth and archaeological insight to a situation that is often framed as a moment of crisis, and challenges some long-held archaeological assumptions. |
February 16, 2021 |
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AGM and Presidential Address - The Long History of Conservation |
Gillian Tindall |
We are inclined to date concern for historic buildings from the time of Ashbee and Morris, but an interest in `relics' was already developing two centuries earlier in the wake of Cromwellian destruction. With the New Learning, the relative peace and easier travel the 18th century brought, antiquarianism flowered. Even before 1800 enthusiasts were busy sketching parts of Tudor London before they disappeared; and as enthusiasm for the Gothic and for the pre-Raphaelite world expanded, new discoveries were made – and sometimes faked. |
March 9, 2021 |
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Clitterhouse Farm, an Anglo-Saxon farm on the doorstep of Brent Cross. |
Roger Chapman, Hendon and District Archaeological Society |
HADAS, the Hendon and District Archaeological Society has operated in Barnet for over 50 years. For the last few years HADAS has been exploring Clitterhouse Farm. This is the story of that exploration and the local archaeological society that has undertaken it. |
May 11, 2021 |
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Joint Prehistoric Society and LAMAS lecture - 'In this Heathe hath many campes bin pitched ...': The West London Landscapes Project in context |
Jon Cotton and Nicholas Elsdon |
The West London Landscapes Project is intended to round up the last of the historic Greater London archaeological backlog. We will highlight results from a range of prehistoric and Roman sites examined between 1979 and 1994 on and beyond the Heathrow terrace gravels in west London and set them in their local and wider regional contexts. |