Kent Archaeological Society | Kent Archaeological Society

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Web Name: Kent Archaeological Society | Kent Archaeological Society

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News Library re-opens for limited accessMaidstone Museum have agreed to allow a limited number members to access the KAS Library. Under Covid-19 management procedures we are currently restricted to allowing 3 people in the Library at any one time. Please note this before making a booking using this diary. You are also required to wear a face mask when moving to and from the Library within the Museum building. Read More Newsletter - Summer 2020In light of the current Covid-19 situation and its implications, the Newsletter Editor wishes to inform members that the Society will not publish a Summer edition and, instead, the next issue will be a bumper Winter issue.   The deadline for submitting articles is now 1 November 2020. KAS back on TVThe pilot of The Great British Dig was repeated on June 20th and, due to it's popularity first time round, it was upgraded to the main channel 4 in the prestigious 8.00 Saturday night timeslot competing with live football and Alan Carr for the nation's attention Read More Council meetingThe KAS Trustees will connect online on Saturday June 6th for the 11th Council meeting 2019 Thirsk PrizeThe latest Thirsk Prize for a Kent related MA Dissertation was awarded to Andrew Ratcliff for his work on Eccles Roman Villa. the title is available in the KAS Library when access is permitted again. Don't forget to regularly check our Upcoming Events section and fill your diary with these interesting and diverse offerings throughout the county, events are constantly being updated and if you have an event you would like to have added, contact the web team. The Council for British Archaeology have announced an amazing 9 days of digital events based around the theme of climate and the environment. Their traditional festival events will now be held between October 24th and November 1st. More details to follow. Following his recent appointment as President-Elect Kerry Brown introduces himself to members. In this video, Kerry talks about what the Kent Archaeological Society means to him, what its strengths are and his vision for the future of the Society.Click here to view Kerry's biography  With immediate effect all meetings, events, conferences and forums are cancelled.  This means that the forthcoming Annual General Meeting in May is cancelled as well as all meetings of Council and the Committees.  The Library and our facilities in Marsham Street are now shut and there will be no 2020 season on the Lees Court Estate. Archaeologia Cantiana and Newsletters will be produced as and when practicable. The latest blog from the Centre for Kent History and Heritage gives us the final details of the preparations for the Tudors and Stuarts History Weekend which is stil very much going ahead, all be it virtually. There's also some news of the retirement of Paul Bennett MBE from Canterbury Archaeological Trust and the tributes and celebrations of his career which accompanied it.https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/kenthistory/tudors-and-stuarts-and-paul-bennetts-retirement/ Research using KAS archival material can take many forms. Mr Nicholas Hill, of the Maidstone Area Archaeological Group, has kindly provided us with the Boxley Abbey report he put together using material in the Peter Tester archive.         H.Bensted sketch of Boxley Abbey   Cobham Landscape Detectives was a three year, lottery funded, community archaeology project. It aimed to explore the Kentish Parish of Cobham and beyond.  The booklet details some of the discoveries that were made and the history that was uncovered. It takes a chronological approcah, beginning in Prehistory and ending with WWII military camps that still dot the landscape.

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