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Richard Sheppard will give a guided tour of Bolsover Castle in the morning (11.00am to 12.30pm) with a walk around the site to get the feel of its medieval origins and its 17th century heyday. After a lunch break, we reconvene at 2.00pm on the other side of the Doe Lea valley at Sutton Scarsdale Hall, the shell of a Georgian mansion built in 1724-1729 where we delve beneath its 18th century exterior to examine the perplexing structural evidence within its interior for its earlier past.

Organised by the Architecture Section

CBA East Midlands Group summer tour of an archaeological landscape will this year take place in Nottinghamshire, looking at Old Ox ‘hillfort’ in the morning and being shown King John’s Palace at Clipstone by the team from Mercian Archaeological Services in the afternoon.

The tour is free, and anyone is welcome, but let David Ingham at david.cba-em@albiondi.plus.com know in advance if you want to join us: we need to keep a check on numbers, and also know whom to expect on the day.