Derbyshire Archaeological Society
Society Events
THE 2013 SUMMER PROGRAMME
PLEASE NOTE
Most of the following visits require pre-booking. (Unless otherwise
stated)
Booking forms sent to members with Summer Programme
notes.
LHS – Local History Section
IAS – Industrial Archaeology Section
ARG – Archaeological Research
Group AS –
Architectural Section
Tuesday 7th May 2013: Society AGM at Derby Museum 7.30pm
Following the formal business of the AGM, Trevor Griffin (Project Leader)
of The Butterley Gangroad Project will give a talk on the subject.
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Monday 20th May. Archaeology at Chester Green 2013
The Environment Agency and Derby City Council are jointly funding two sets
of trial trenching by Oxford North in advance of new flood bank defences
at Chester Green. The first was on Parker's Piece, for two weeks
and started Monday 8 April (See photos linked from our main page). The second, also two weeks, will be on Darley
Playing Fields, starting on 20 May. The purpose is to identify areas of
Roman, or later, archaeology. Once traces have been identified, trenches
(about 8 in each location) will be backfilled.
Members of the Society are welcome to come and observe. An exhibition on
site to present results may be arranged and if so it will be advertised in
the local media and on the Society's website.
Please also see details of our own field work activity in this area
(under 29th June)
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Wednesday 22nd May 7pm St Michael's Church, Church Broughton,
Derbys
The Reverend Michael Bishop will give a talk about the
church, which is mostly early 14th century but was founded in the 12th
century and some Norman work remains including a Norman font.
You will be asked for a donation of £2.50 for the church.
Meet 7pm at the church, car parking on the street.
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Thursday 23 May: Visit to Caudwell`s Mill, Rowsley.
The mill
tour will be led by Graeme Walker who has been involved with the operation
of flour production for many years. The mill was built for John Caudwell
in 1874 and was very progressive. By 1914 it had changed from stones to
rollers and from waterwheel to water turbine. It closed in 1978 and
fortunately this unique mill has been preserved and is producing high
quality flour.
Meet 7.00pm at the mill (SK 256657). Entry will be £3 per person
restricted to 20.
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Saturday 8 June: Visit to Ellys Manor House and church, Dallygate,
Great Ponton, Lincolnshire at 2pm
Ellys Manor House was built in the Flemish architectural style in the late
15thC to early 16thC by the Ellys family who were rich wool merchants
trading between England and Flanders. Built of limestone with deepset
mullion windows, the house retains many original features with huge oak
beams in the high ceilinged rooms and massive stone fireplaces. The upper
rooms house a fabulous scheme of early 16thC wall paintings said to be
'the most complete, extensive and important decorations of this date
in the country'. The house which 'fully encapsulates early modern
European and British history' stands in 2 acres of gardens adjacent to
the church of the Holy Cross, the tower of which was also built by the
Ellys family. The present owner, Mr C.M. Taylor will take us on a guided
tour of the house and the church.
TICKETS ONLY
Numbers limited to 30. Cost: £8, £7 for concessions (60 and over). Car
parks: there is a car park on the eastern side of the church. If this is
full there is a car park at the village hall on Archers Way, a short walk
from the house.
Directions: travel north on the A1 (A1M) and take a right turn at Great
Ponton under the footbridge across the southbound carriageway. Or, to
avoid crossing the carriageway, continue a few miles and exit left towards
Grantham but then double back onto the A1 southbound.
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Saturday 15th June 2pm St Mary's Church, Merevale, Warwicks (near
Atherstone) and New House Grange, Leics
The Reverend Janet Gasper
will show us round the church, once the gatehouse chapel of the Cistercian
Abbey. Stained glass from the Abbey Church is here, notably the remains of
a fourteenth century Jesse window. We will also visit the nearby ruins of
the Abbey. Henry Tudor, Duke of Richmond stayed at the abbey on the night
before the Battle of Bosworth Field. We will then drive to New House
Grange to see the fifteenth century barn described in Mrs Poulson's
recent lecture. Donation payable on the day.
Numbers are limited to 40
Meet : Merevale Church, inside the Gatehouse at 2pm. Car parking in layby
in front of gatehouse.
Directions to The Abbey and New House Grange will be sent to those who
book.
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Saturday 22nd June - Ashby-de-la-Zouche, Leics. - 10-30 a.m.
A guided walk of Ashby is planned with a visit to the Museum to see the
exhibits and watch a film of the recent archaeological excavations at St.
Helens Church which revealed a medieval rectory, barn, stone drain, etc.
The cost will be £4-50 adult, £4.00 concessions, payable on the day. The
Museum is on North Street and also houses the Tourist Information Office
and Library. There is pay & display public parking behind the Museum
or a long stay car park in South Street.
Meet outside the Museum.
After lunch there is an optional visit to Ashby Castle. Free to English
Heritage members or £4.70 adults,/ £4.10 concessions ( possibility of a
Group discount).
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Sunday 23 June: Coach Trip to South Yorkshire.
Meet 9.00am at bus stop X3, Full Street, Derby. The South Yorkshire
Industrial History Society is responsible for preserving several historic
sites in the area between Sheffield and Barnsley which are well worth
visiting. The morning will be spent at Wortley Top Forge, where three
water wheels and a forge were opened as a museum and there is now an
extensive collection of stationary steam engines and machine tools on
show. Tea and coffee will be available, but there is no cafe so please
bring a picnic lunch. In the afternoon we will be guided around some less
well known sites that have recently been the subject of research or
restoration projects, including a nail forge, waggonway and a blast
furnace.
Booking is essential - the price covers coach and admission fees,
£20 in total. Return should be 6.30pm.
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Wednesday 26 June: Walk round Osmaston Park: 6.30pm, courtesy of Sir
Andrew Walker-Okeover
Leader: Mrs Anne Clowes In 1846, Francis Wright, esq, commissioned Henry
Isaac Stevens to design a new country house on his estate at Osmaston near
Ashbourne. This was demolished in 1965 apart from the smoke tower (not
open). Following her lecture in February, Mrs Clowes is going show us
round the site of the house and the restored terraces. We will then visit
St Martin's church in Osmaston village. Built in 1845 it was the first
church in Derbyshire to be built in the medieval Gothic style. The
churchwarden, Mr Parker, is bringing his scrapbooks of the Manor and
village.
TICKETS ONLY.
Numbers limited to 50 Cost: £3. (Donation to St Martin's church)
Meet: In the car park at Osmaston Park. Directions: Turn left at the duck
pond in Osmaston village (DE6 1LW) and go through the lodge gates. Follow
the avenue down the hill and through the gate ahead.
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Saturday 29th June - Archaeology at Chester Green 2013.
In
connection with the note for 8th April (and later dates as mentioned), the
Society is organising its own field day activity, including resistivity
and other surveying techniques, at Darley Playing Fields, Chester Green,
on Saturday 29th June 2013.
If you wish to take part, please contact Dr. Joan D'Arcy by email
(jdarcy@qcinternet.co.uk)
or post or telephone (01332 363354) with your details and mention
Fieldwork on Darley Playing Fields - Saturday 29 June 2013. 10 am - 4
pm
to ARG Field Officer, Stone House Prebend, Old Chester Road, Derby DE1
3SA,
Your
name(s)..................................................................
Your
address...................................................................
Your Tel ..................... E-mail
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Thursday 4 July: The Butterley Gangroad in Bull Bridge and
Fritchley.
The Butterley Gangroad was a horse operated railway
engineered by Benjamin Outram in 1793 to link the Cromford Canal with the
Crich limestone quarries. Trevor Griffin is co-ordinating a Heritage
Lottery funded project to research and interpret the history of the line
and he will lead a walk to identify discoveries so far. The walk is one
mile on minor roads and woodland paths, with a few gradients. Some may
wish to do an optional 1.5 mile extension over fields.
Meet 7.15pm in the car park at the Lord Nelson pub Bull Bridge. DE56 2EW
(SK 358523)
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Saturday 13th July - Burrough Hill excavations, Melton Mowbray. 11 a.m.
SK761119
A chance to visit the ongoing excavations of the hill fort at Burrough
Hill with a guided tour by Dr. Jeremy Taylor who spoke at the meeting in
November 2012. Situated in Burrough Hill Park, Somerby Road,
Burrough-on-the-Hilll, Melton Mowbrary, LE14 2QZ
Meet in the car park (pay & display £2.50 all day parking - exact
money needed). A path from the car park of about 250 yards leads to the
excavations.
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Saturday 27th July Donington le Heath Manor House, near Coalville,
Leics. LE67 2FW
This manor house was built around 1280. We will hear about its medieval
history and changes made in the seventeenth century when it became a
tenanted farm and its recent conservation by Leicestershire County
Council.
Meet 2pm at the Manor House where there is a car park and tea room.
Numbers are limited to 20. The Manor House is south of Coalville between
Donington le Heath and Hugglescote. Signposted from A42 Junction 12 with
the A511.
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Saturday 17th August - A Day in Shrewsbury
A coach has been booked to leave Derby Full Street at 9 a.m. We shall
return from Shrewsbury at 5 p.m. We will make a stop at Wroxeter to see
the Grade 1 listed redundant church of St. Andrew's. The church is
built on the Roman site of Viroconium and contains many Roman stones. Once
in Shrewsbury there is plenty to see and do. There is the Abbey, the
Castle, the churches of St. Mary and St. Chad, many medieval buildings and
river trips. Hopefully, the new Museum and Art Gallery created from the
Victorian Music Hall building and Assembly Rooms and William Vaughan's
13th century mansion will be open to the public (due to open in the second
half of 2013) which will contain a new Roman gallery.
The cost for the coach per person is £13.50 payable with booking.
Early booking advised, places limited to 53.
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Saturday 31 August: Walk round Repton: 10.30am-1pm
Leaders: Malcolm Birdsall and Adrian Earp
The walk will begin with a visit to Repton School to look at the exterior
of the medieval Prior Overton's Tower erected in 1437. Originally it
was not a detached tower but a complete house, of which the tower must
have formed the Prior's private parlour and chamber above. The brick
building extended further east, so probably the former Hall lay to the
east of the tower and beyond it would have been the butteries, pantries
and kitchen. The cusping in the twin two-centred arches appears to be made
of terracotta, which, if so, would make it one of the earliest uses of
this material in England. Pevsner described it as 'one of the most
ornate pieces of domestic brick architecture in England'. We will also
be visiting St Wystan's church with its historic Anglo-Saxon crypt and
looking at the historic buildings in Repton including some of the timber
framed buildings.
TICKETS ONLY and MEMBERS ONLY: numbers limited to 25.
Meet: outside the main entrance to Repton School. Cost: £1.50. (Donation
to Derbyshire Air Ambulance)
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Thursday 5 September: Donington Aero Park.
John Creamer will lead a tour of the steadily expanding collection of
aircraft accompanied by other experts. The collection includes:-Armstrong
Whitworth Meteor, BAC Lightning, Blackburn Buccaneer, De Havilland Sea
Venom, Hawker Hunter, Spitfire and many more. Amongst the larger airplanes
are the Avro Vulcan and Nimrod "spy plane". Further information
can be found on www.eastmidlandsaeropark.org. There is an admittance
charge of £3 per person payable when booking and an optional f4 for a
guided tour of the Nimrod and its specialised equipment to be paid on the
night if interested.
Meet 7.00pm at Donington Aero Park (SK 442264)
Numbers are limited to 40.
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Saturday 12 October: EMIAC 86 - Oil Industry in Nottinghamshire and
Lincolnshire.
Details and booking form with July Newsletter.
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