Brighton and Hove Archaeological Society

Speaker - Sarah Green

Crete is best known in Greek Mythology as the home of King Minos, his wife Pasiphae, their daughters Ariadne and Phaedra and Pasiphae's child, the Minotaur. According to the myth, the half-bull, half-man was housed in a labyrinth and killed by the hero Theseus. But who were the Minoans and how did their civilisation, which has been described as the earliest of its kind in Europe, develop into a strong maritime entity which traded throughout the Aegean, notably on mainland Greece, and with Egypt?
This lecture will look at the archaeological evidence we have for the Aegean Bronze Age civilization on the island of Crete, which flourished from about 2600 to 1100 BC and was rediscovered at the beginning of the 20th century through the work of British archaeologist Arthur Evans

Admission Free to BHAS Members, £4 to Non-Members

Your Lecturer: James Sainsbury

Saxon and Highdown Hill.
Arguably the most important Saxon cemetery in Sussex, this lecture will look at new evidence from Highdown Hill and discuss the potential for future investigations at this most enigmatic of sites. The story of its discovery in the 1890s through to our reanalysis of the grave goods will be covered, in addition to looking at trends in the Worthing area from the end of Roman Britain to the coming of the Normans.

Admission Free to BHAS Members, £4 to Non-Members

Daniel Defoe's tour of South East England 1724
Known as the author of Robinson Crusoe, he was also a man of many parts. One of these was as the author of a book which has never been out of print: "A tour of the whole of the island of Great Britain." This talk looks at Defoe's re-port on S.E. England in the period leading up to 1724 when Britain was in the throes of the industrial revolution and be-coming a world power. We travel through Kent, Sussex, Hampshire and Surrey to see our landscape through the eyes of a master story teller and think of what continuity and change we can discern from today's viewpoint.

Talk given by Geoffrey Mead

The meetings this season will be held in the Fellowship Room, Central United Reformed Church, 102 Blatchington Road, Hove BN3 3YF ,
2.15 pm for a Prompt start at 2.30 pm.
It is the "Blue Door", the door will be closed at the meeting start, please use the door bell to gain entry.

Admission Free entry to BHAS members. £4 to non-members.

Your Lecturer: Mike Parker Pearson

Life, Death and Times in the Bronze Age.
Recent archaeological discoveries in Britain have revealed unexpectedly ordered and complex understandings by Bronze Age people of their world some three thousand years ago. Mike Parker Pearson will talk about his excavations in the Western Isles of Scotland and how they have helped to transform our knowledge of how treatment of the dead, including exhu-mation and mummification, and of how people lived their daily lives in roundhouses according to a variety of tem-poral cycles. More complex notions of time and astronomi-cal measurement are also evident in some of the monu-ments and sacrificial remains from the period more widely across Britain.

Admission Free to BHAS Members, £4 to Non-Members

Further images of Sussex
Cherry will present another selection in her series of paint-ings of Sussex scenes from both the 19th and 20th centuries. She will speak not only about the paintings but also about the artists, some of whom are well-known, such as Eric Ravilious, and others who are not well known at all.

Talk given by Cherry Gillingham

The meetings this season will be held in the Fellowship Room, Central United Reformed Church, 102 Blatchington Road, Hove BN3 3YF ,
2.15 pm for a Prompt start at 2.30 pm.
It is the "Blue Door", the door will be closed at the meeting start, please use the door bell to gain entry.

Admission Free entry to BHAS members. £4 to non-members.

Your Lecturer: Adam Wightman

Recent discoveries in the Roman city of Colchester
Recent discoveries in the Roman city of Colchester; military buildings, declining townhouses, the bathhouse and extramural burial, settlement & industry.

Admission Free to BHAS Members, £4 to Non-Members