Past events

The flat landscape of Holderness, East Yorkshire, was once dotted with freshwater lakes and pools.

Ever since antiquarians first began to record their observations about long barrows, it has been almost universally agreed that these monuments were deliberately sited both to be seen from afar and

The Autumn Meeting will be held in Canterbury and will be led by Peter Ginn and Nathalie Cohen.

In 1937, the philosopher Robin Collingwood excavated a henge monument in Cumbria and identified the postholes of a series of timber buildings which he compared with those at other sites.

Brian Kerr will look at some of the key elements in the development of Cathcart Castle, a tower house on the south side of Glasgow, from its construction in 1450 through to its abandonment and partial demolition in c.1740.

Crosswell: a stone circle and henge complex among the bluestone sources

The Institute last held a Summer Meeting in King's Lynn in 1932. The Proceedings for this Meeting are available in Archaeological Journal Vol 89 (pp 327-385).

Altogether Archaeology (an RAI research grant recipient) will have the following site open days at the Gueswick Hills excavation: 20^th, 24^th, 27^th, 31^st August and 3^rd Sept. 

Norton Disney History and Archaeology Group (an RAI research grant recipient) will have a site open day Saturday, 14th June from 10 am to 2 pm.

The Rauceby Hoard and the Norton Disney Settlement

10 am–12:30 pm, Co-op Lecture Theatre (Minerva Building MB0312)