Monthly Archives: February 2015

Beyond the Villa: 5000 years of human activity at Lufton, Somerset

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SOMERSET ARCHAEOLOGICAL & NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY

 The Archaeology Committee of the Somerset Archaeology and Natural History Society 

present

The 2015 ANNUAL ARCHAEOLOGY DAY

 BEYOND THE VILLA: 5000 YEARS OF HUMAN ACTIVITYAT LUFTON

 Dr James Gerrard

Saturday 28th March 2015

10am – 4pm

Westland Conference & Leisure Complex, Yeovil

 Programme:

 The morning will feature a panel of speakers on recent archaeological discoveries in and around Yeovil, including: 

The Bunford Hollow excavation

The archaeology & history of the Westlands site

Archaeological recording at St John’s Church

After lunch our keynote speaker, Dr James Gerrard will talk about new archaeological discoveries in the Lufton Villa Landscape over the past five years.

 Admission: £12.00

 Tickets available on the door.

To book in advance visit the SANHS Online Shop at www.SANHS.org

email: programme@sanhs.org  or  Tel: 01823 272429.

 Ploughmans lunch available for £5.50 with advance booking only.

 

 

Green Waste and Archaeological Geophysics

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During our geophysical surveys around Lufton we discovered that the use of ‘green waste’ on arable fields was causing interference to our magnetometer surveys. This interference would appear to be due to iron contaminants present in the green waste.

Given the scale that green waste is being used on in the UK and Europe this phenomenon could have significant implications for shallow geophysical prospection.

Our research has recently been published in the journal Archaeological Prospection as: Gerrard, J., Caldwell, L. and Kennedy, A. 2015 ‘Green waste and archaeological geophysics’. Archaeological Prospection