This year's conference will explore theme of Agriculture, Industry and Trade in the Roman South East.
With a full host of leading academics including James Gerrard, Anne Sassin, Philip Smither, Louise Rayner, Martyn Allen, Damian Goodburn and Lindsay Bandfield discussing a range of subject areas including 'Gods and grains: new insights into ritual and agricultural activity at Lullingstone Roman Villa, Kent'; ‘New findings, old archives: recent research on Roman pottery’ and 'Making flour the German Way: imported lava querns and millstones in Roman Britain and Sussex’
The planned itinerary for the day is as follows (E.&O.E.)
9.30 – 10.00 Registration
10.00 – 10.10 Chair: Paul Booth Welcome and introduction
10.10 – 10.50 James Gerrard (Newcastle University) ‘Living by the Medway Marsh: Roman and early medieval activity at Grange Farm, Gillingham Kent’
10.50 – 11.30 Anne Sassin (Kent Downs AONB) ‘Gods and grains: new insights into ritual and agricultural activity at Lullingstone Roman Villa, Kent'
11.30 – 11.50 Tea & coffee break
11.50 – 12.30 Philip Smither (West Berkshire Heritage) ‘Re-investigating trade at Richborough’
12.30 – 13.10 Louise Rayner (Archaeology South-East) ‘New findings, old archives: recent research on Roman pottery’
13.10 – 14.20 Lunch
14.20 – 15.00` Lindsay Banfield (York Archaeology) ‘Making flour the German Way: imported lava querns and millstones in Roman Britain and Sussex’
15.00 – 15.40 Damian Goodburn (MoLA) ‘Evidence for Roman woodworking and woodlands in the SE of England’
15.40 – 16.00 Break
16.00 – 16.40 Martyn Allen (Oxford Archaeology) ‘New evidence for Roman iron production at Bexhill, Sussex’
16.40 – 16.50 Closing remarks