A conference to mark the occasion of Tony Rook’s 80th Birthday

Saturday 14th July 2012

John Baker: “Hertfordshire Hundreds: Names and Places”

Isobel Thompson: “When was the Roman conquest in Hertfordshire?”

Stewart Bryant: “A nice place to live: settlement and landscape in Hertfordshire from 1500BC to 100BC”

Pete Boyer: “Recent excavations at Station Road, Watton-at-Stone”

Kris Lockyear: “The late Iron Age and Roman site at Six Acres, Watton-at-Stone”

Simon West: “Out of Town, and on the Edge?’ Evaluating recent evidence for Romanisation within the Verulamium region”

Gil Burleigh: “Burials, ditches and deities: defining the boundaries of Iron Age and Romano-British Baldock”

Anne Rowe: “In praise of pollards – living archaeology”

Keith FitzPatrick-Matthews: “Local landscapes for local people? The significance of the Baldock bowl”

Sarah Dhanjal, Kris Lockyear and Gabe Moshenska: “The ‘Dig Where We Stand Project’: community archaeology in action.”

Further information

The conference will be held at the Terrace Suite, Campus West, Welwyn Garden City from 9.00am to 4.30pm. Tickets cost £17.50 (including tea/coffee, excluding lunch). Please send a SAE and a cheque made payable to the Welwyn Archaeological Society to Kris Lockyear, 3 Lamer Park, Lamer Lane, Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire AL4 8RJ. For further details please contact Kris Lockyear via email or on 01582 831946.