Recorded lectures
In Search of Britain’s Oldest Pubs
Numerous claims are made to be Britain’s oldest pub from all corners of the isles.
A Mesolithic experience: Excavations at Rubha Port an t-Seilich, Isle of Islay
In January 2009, pigs snuffling in the bracken on east coast of the Isle of Islay, western Scotland, turned up some small pieces of flint on a small terrace known as Rubha Port an t-Seilich (
The Maison Domat, Mirefleurs (France): stories of Ancient and Modern Celts, Romans, Bourbons, Stuarts and Hollywood
I will tell a number of intersecting stories which spin-off from a grant given to me in the 1970s by the Institute, to explore the origins of Iron Age oppida in the Auvergne (Aul
2024 Spring Meeting
The Spring Meeting (event) was held in Newark on Saturday, 11 May and was led by Dr Mark Gardiner and Mr Peter Ginn.
Iron Age and Roman Silchester: Fifty years of research in perspective
Once thought to be a worked-out site following the Society of Antiquaries’ excavations, 1890 – 1909, excavations at Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum) since the 1970s have shown rema
The Justinianic Plague in England: archaeological contexts and consequences
The ‘First Pandemic’, an outbreak of bubonic plague which struck Constantinople in the late spring of AD 542, was relatively well recorded by some contemporary writers.
Last chance to see. The threat of climate change to Roman Vindolanda and Magna
This lecture will focus on the increasing detrimental effects of climate change on the buried archaeological deposits at the forts of Vindolanda and Magna.
Life, death and worship at HM Tower of London
The Tower of London is one of the most important and sensitive historic sites in the world.
Footmarks. An archaeology of movement
Can we ever know what it was like to move in the past; to understand its meanings and complexities?
New fieldwork at Hinton St Mary, Dorset: the mosaic in context
This talk will present the results of three seasons of fieldwork at the site of the discovery of the Hinton St Mary mosaic, uncovered by chance 60 years ago behind the blacksmith’s forge.