A joint promotion from Stoke on Trent Museum Archaeological Society and the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, to be held in the comfortable three hundred seater lecture theatre.
Speakers confirmed:
Professor Gary Lock, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology, University of Oxford , is our headline speaker. Gary's team have dug for several seasons at Nesscliffe, an unusual Iron Age hillfort in Shropshire, and he will be revealing their latest findings.
Dr John Halstead, Senior Historic Environment Manager with the HS2 project, will talk about the archaeological sites found along the line in Staffordshire.
Kristina Krawiec, Head of Geoarchaeology at York Archaeology, has excavated a massive Iron Age post alignment amidst a landscape of prehistoric features in the Derbyshire Trent Valley near Repton.
Joe Perry, Curator at The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, looks at the colourful range of pre- and post-industrial North Staffordshire pottery that has been excavated by SOTMAS at our Hilderstone dig, with comparison to examples in the Museum collection.
Shane Kelleher, Staffordshire County Archaeologist, will concentrate on three Anglo-Saxon sites investigated in Barton, Uttoxeter and Stafford.
There is a cafe on site, and attendees are welcome to browse the museum. The wonderful ceramics collection will be particularly interesting to archaeologists .
Additional tickets will be available at the door on the day. It is a free event, visitors are encouraged to donate to the Museum.
