This year sees the Hadrian’s Wall 1900 celebrations and our spring conference will contribute to these events. It sees a return to a live meeting, but papers will also be streamed live. The conference is being held in association with Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery. It will be a two-day conference from early afternoon on Friday 6th May until mid-afternoon on Saturday 7th May in the Lecture Theatre, Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery. There will also be a pre-conference tour of Carlisle Castle on the Friday morning for those who wish to attend
Timetable
Day One: Friday 6th May 2022
11.00 Pre-Conference Guided tour: Carlisle Castle.
13.00 Registration. Welcome tea/coffee
13.25 Welcome and Introduction, Elsa Price, Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery.
Session One: Roman Carlisle
Chair: Frances McIntosh, English Heritage.
13.30 Frank Giecco (Wardell Armstrong): The Roman bathhouse at Carlisle Cricket Club: a community excavation project.
14.05 Nick Henderson (Development Officer for Hadrian’s Wall Partnership): Uncovering Roman Carlisle Project.
14.20 Dr Hilary Cool (Barbican Research Associates): The military production of glass bottles: evidence from Bonn, Rocester and Carlisle. (Zoom)
14.45 Richard Brickstock, (Independent Researcher): Foundation dates from a numismatic perspective: Carlisle and the Stanegate.
15.20 Tea/Coffee – viewing of finds and posters
Session Two: Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery
Chair: Barbara Birley, Vindolanda Trust.
15.50 Tim Padley (Independent Researcher): The early history of collections at Tullie House and a second century gold and glass bead necklace from Carlisle.
16.15 Dr Eleri Cousins (Lancaster University): Looking again at the Bewcastle plaques to Cocidius.
16.40 Dr Martin Henig (Research Associate of the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford): Roman gems from Carlisle.
17.05 Elsa Price (Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery): Occupation: Cumbria Under Roman Rule Gallery.
Reception at Tullie House Museum and ArtGallery
17.30 - 18.30 Wine reception and private viewing of the Roman Galleries at Tullie House Museum.
Evening Social / Conference Meal
20.00 A private room has been reserved at Adriano’s Italian Restaurant. Numbers limited. Full details are in the programme information.
Day Two: Saturday 7th May 2022
Session Three: Western Sector of Hadrian's Wall
Chair: Stephen Greep, RFG.
09.00 Nick Summerton (Independent Researcher): A collyrium stamp from Watercrook, Cumbria and eye care in the west of Hadrian's Wall.
09.35 Lindsay Allason-Jones (Hon Fellow, Newcastle University): Sculpture from Old Carlisle and what it tells us about life in the hinterland of Hadrian's Wall.
10.00 Dr Ian Bass (FLO for Lancashire and Cumbria): Recent north-western Romano-British finds recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme – Part 1.
10.25 Alex Whitlock (FLO for Lancashire and Cumbria): Recent north-western Romano-British finds recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme – Part 2.
10.50 Tea/Coffee – viewing of finds and posters
Session Four: Western Sector of Hadrian's Wall
Chair: Denise Allen, RFG.
11.30 Keynote - Barbara Birley (Vindolanda Trust): Revealing Magna and the threat of climate change to archaeological sites.
11.55 Tony Wilmott (Historic England): Finds from recent excavations at Birdoswald and Maryport.
12.20 Dr Stephen Greep (Roman Finds Group): An unfinished antler composite comb from Great Chesters.
12.35 Lunch (Roman Finds Group 2022 AGM)
Session Five: Roman Vindolanda
Chair: Matthew Hobson, Wardell Armstrong and University of Leicester.
14.00 Mark Hoyle (Archaeological Illustrator): Illustrating Vindolanda.
14.25 Dr Elizabeth Green (University of Western Ontario, Canada): Recent research and discoveries on the leather assemblage at Vindolanda.
14.50 Dr Alexander Meyer (University of Western Ontario, Canada): Experiments in the imaging of Roman stylus tablets.
15.15 Barbara Birley (Vindolanda Trust): Recent post Roman and Christian finds from Vindolanda.
15.40 Conclusion and End