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MAS Evening Lectures

Evening lectures are held on the third Thursday in every month between September and April.
Venue: Quaker Meeting House, 22 School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BT (please note, during the winter, meetings are held on Zoom - details are sent via email to members ahead of the meeting)
Time:  Doors open at 7pm, the meetings start at 7:30pm.
Further info: All welcome! You do not need to be a member to attend. £1 for members, £2 for non-members. Non-members wishing to attend a Zoom meeting may do so - please Contact Us for information.

Programme: 2022-3

15th September 2022: 'Why Finding Nothing Can Sometimes Tell Us Something, But Finding Things Is Nicer: Recent (and not so Recent) Excavations on Merseyside and Cheshire'  Mark Adams. At Quaker Meeting House

20th October 2022: 'The future is Birkenhead (thanks to the past!)': Dean Paton, Big Heritage. At Quaker Meeting House

17th November 2022: 'From Small Seeds: The European legacy of a Bolton woman - Annie Barlow's work in Egyptology and elsewhere and her legacy, including items in Bolton Museum's collection': Ian Trumble, Bolton Museum. On Zoom

15th December 2022: MAS Christmas Quiz. On Zoom

19th January 2023: 'The Landscape of Neolithic Axes Project: studying a major stone source for Neolithic axe heads in North Wales': Jane Kenney, Gwynedd Archaeological Trust. On Zoom

16th February 2023: Current research by University of Liverpool students - three talks about their current research by PhD students in the Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology Department. George Downs. Autonomous itineraries: The future of archaeological tourism in Aegean Turkey, Catalonia and Merseyside. Emily Bowyer-Kazadi. Engaging with Archaeological Landscapes: Narratives from British National Parks. Alex Bowers. Rickets, Resorption and Revolution: An investigation into the relationship between vitamin D deficiency in childhood and osteoporosis in adulthood in an 18th-19th century archaeological population. At Quaker Meeting House

16th March 2023: 'The MAS/NML cemetery recording project at Childwall All Saints, Liverpool': Dave Roberts. At Quaker Meeting House

20th April 2023: Annual General Meeting and Members' evening. At Quaker Meeting House


Previous years' programmes:

20th January 2022: 'The Manx rosy basin: a quest for ceramic identity': Peter Davey

17th February 2022: 'Recent excavations at Rossett Roman villa': Caroline Pudney, University of Chester

17th March 2022: 'The Origins of Late Bronze Age Hilltop Enclosure sites in Western Atlantic Britain': Lorrae Campbell, University of Liverpool

2nd April 2022: Archaeology in Merseyside AIM 2022 Conference - Book Online at:
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21st April 2022: MAS AGM followed by a talk by Roy Forshaw

17th June 2021: 'Early Salt-Making in Merseyside and South Lancashire': Mark Adams, RSK

15th July 2021: 'Archaeology of Hilbre Island': Roy Forshaw, Museum of Liverpool

19th August 2021: 'Archaeology of Norton Priory': Rob Philpott

16th September 2021: Annual General Meeting
Followed by talk 'The Dock House Dig - Piermaster's Green Community Archaeology Project': Vanessa Oakden, NML

2021 Chair's Report
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MAS accounts 2020
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2021 Treasurer's report
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MAS 2020 AGM minutes
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21st October 2021: 'Mediaeval Buildings Myths – The Folklore and Archaeology of Historic Buildings': James Wright

18th November 2021: 'From Leicestershire to Liverpool: the Roman mosaic from Medbourne': Gina Muskett

16th December 2021: Christmas Social and Quiz




20th September 2020: Evening meeting to be replaced by the Bidston Hill field trip: Mark Adams

15th October 2020: 'Merseyside's Industrial Heritage - a short illustrated guide' : Maurice Handley

19th November 2020: 'Capstans, Winches and Walls - Industrial Archaeology at Princes Dock': Mark Adams

17th December 2020: AGM and Christmas Quiz

21st January 2021: ‘Decoys and Rubble - Taking another look at the wartime coast’: Chris Kolonko, Citizan

18th February 2021: ‘Recent PAS finds’: Heather Beeton, Museum of Liverpool

18th March 2021: ‘Triton Knoll’: Claire Christie, Headland Archaeology

15th April 2021: Members' evening - presentations by Gina Muskett, Howard Harris and Maurice Handley

20th May 2021:  'A Bronze and Iron Age field system near Evesham, Worcestershire': Laurence Hayes, RSK



19th September 2019: 'Violence, Ideology, and Classical Archaeology during the Early Decades of French Colonization in Algeria': Bonnie Effros

17th October 2019: 'A Post-Medieval pottery assemblage from Chapel Wharf in the heart of Salford': Sam Rowe

21st November 2019: 'The Roman Archaeology of Quay Meadow, Lancaster': Lancaster and District Heritage Group

19th December 2019: Members Evening

23rd January 2020: 'Tectonic plates – geological, cultural, and historical: recent archaeology in the northern Aegean and the Thermaic Gulf': Zosia Archibald

20th February 2020: 'Recent Fieldwork on Merseyside': Dan Garner

19th March 2020: 'The Portable Antiquities Scheme and Merseyside: Artefacts from Merseyside identified and recorded through the Portable Antiquities Scheme': Heather Beeton.

23rd April 2020: - Annual General Meeting
Followed by talk 'Atlas Street Copper Works, St. Helens and Hervey, Peek and Hervey's Ordsall Chemical Works: Recent Excavation': Mark Adams

18th April 2019 - Annual General Meeting
Followed by a talk 'Where the wild things are: hunting in the frontier region of Roman Britain': Sue Stallibrass

2019 Chair's Report
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2018 Accounts
File Size: 29 kb
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2018 AGM minutes
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Field Trips
For details of Field Trips see our 'Events and Field Trips' page.


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