Merseyside Archaeological Society
MAS Evening Lectures
Evening lectures are held on the third Thursday in every month between September and April.
Venue: The meeting in January will be held on Zoom. A link to join the Zoom session will be sent out by email in the week prior to the meeting. From February we will be returning to the Quaker Meeting House, Liverpool.
Time: The Zoom meeting will start at 7:30pm. For the lectures at the Quaker Meeting House, doors open at 7pm, the meetings start at 7:30pm.
Further info: All welcome! You do not need to be a member to attend.
Programme: 2020-1
2022 programme:
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: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archaeology-in-merseyside-aim-2022-tickets-243170408237?aff=ebdssbdestsearch&keep_tld=1
21st April 2022: MAS AGM followed by a talk by Roy Forshaw
Last year's programme:
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
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: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archaeology-in-merseyside-aim-2022-tickets-243170408237?aff=ebdssbdestsearch&keep_tld=1
21st April 2022: MAS AGM followed by a talk by Roy Forshaw
Last year's programme:
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 |
| MAS accounts 2020 |
| 2021 Treasurer's report |
| MAS 2020 AGM minutes |
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
Previous year's programme:
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
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
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
Followed by a talk 'Where the wild things are: hunting in the frontier region of Roman Britain': Sue Stallibrass
| 2019 Chair's Report |
| 2018 Accounts |
| 2018 AGM minutes |