PROGRAMME 2008-2009


Saturday 27th September 2008 2pm at Claremont

River names and place names in North Britain (Brigantia)
Dr John Hind


Saturday 22nd November 2008 2pm at Claremont

Recent Roman finds in Yorkshire
Liz Andrews-Williams
Finds Liaison Officer, Portable Antiquities Scheme



Saturday 24th January 2009 2pm at Claremont (AGM)

Recent fieldwork at Heslington East and its implications for our understanding of Roman York?
Steve Roskams
Department of Archaeology, University of York


Saturday 21st March 2009 2pm at Claremont

Members’ Meeting
Offers of short papers on your research or Roman sites you have visited anywhere in the Empire to the Hon Lecture Secretary (details below)



Saturday 25th April 2009 2.30pm
at the Tempest Anderson Hall, Yorkshire Museum, York

Un-natural selection? People and animals in Roman Yorkshire
Professor Terry O’Connor
Department of Archaeology, University of York

Joint event with the YAS and Yorkshire Philosophical Society

 

Saturday 23rd May 2009 2pm at Claremont

Rural Roman Britain
Dr Jeremy Taylor
Department of Archaeology, University of Leicester

Lectures at Claremont are followed by a business meeting and are free to RAS members.
Lectures are open to non-members of the RAS (£1 a person – including YAS members)



For RAS programme-specific enquiries please contact:
Dr Peter Halkon, Hon Lecture Sec, RAS,
c/o Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Claremont, 23 Clarendon Road, Leeds, LS2 9NZ
a.p.halkon@hull.ac.uk
All other enquiries, including membership questions, to the YAS at the address given.