Merseyside Archaeological Society
MAS Evening Lectures
Evening lectures are held on the third Thursday in every month between September and April - though have been extended for 2021
Venue: Meetings will be held on Zoom until further notice. A link to join the Zoom session will be sent out by email in the week prior to the meeting.
Time: The meeting will start at 7:30pm.
Further info: All welcome! You do not need to be a member to attend.
Programme: 2020-1
2021 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
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: 'Mosaics in the County Sessions House, Liverpool': Gina Muskett
16th December 2021: Christmas Social and Quiz
Last 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
Previous year's programme:
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
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
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 |