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2011
Annual Dinner Weekend: The Museums of Cambridge: Friday 10th and Saturday 11th June
The after dinner lecture will be given by Judith Plouviez, Archaeology Officer, Suffolk County Council, on 'Tradition or Crisis? Late Roman Hoards in East Anglia'
On Saturday we will visit two of Cambridge University's most famous museums. Professor Mary Beard (Newham College, Professor of Classics, Faculty of Classics, Cambridge University) will join us to speak to us at the Museum of Classical Archaeology in the morning. We will see one of the finest collections of casts of Greek and Roman sculpture in the world. The collection of about 450 casts contains nearly all the well known works form the Classical World.
In the afternoon Dr Kate Cooper (AHRC Research Associate, Dept of Antiquities, Fitzwilliam Museum will join us in the Seminar Room at the Fitzwilliam for 'An Illustrated Introduction to the New Greek and Roman Gallery'. Afterwards we will visit the newly refurbished and recently reopened gallery; Dr Cooper will accompany us to answer members questions. There will also be the opportunity to see famous antiquities from the Ancient Near-East, such as the huge granite lid from the sarcophagus of Ramesses III.
Long Weekend Summer Tour: Roman North Wales; Friday 22nd - Monday 25th July
This tour will explore the evidence for, and the latest research on, the Roman Military Frontier and Occupation of North Wales, the territory of the Ordovices. We will visit the forts and their vici of Segontium (Caernarfon), Canovium (Caerhun), Caer Llugwy, and the complex at Tomen y Mur, with its fort, parade ground, tribunal, amphitheatre, bath house, mansio and nearby Pen y Stryd tile kilns and Sarn Helen road. We will also visit the Pen y Gwryd marching camp, Pass of Llanberis and the current excavations of the recently discovered Roman villa at Abermagwr.
On Anglesey (Mona), the last stand of the Druids in AD 60/61 against the Roman army under Suetonius Paulinus, we will visit the late fort and naval base at Caer Gybi, Holyhead, the signal station / watch tower and hillfort on Holyhead Mountain, the current excavations at Tai Cochion Romano-British settlement and the settlement at Din Lligwy. Roman mining and industry will be illustrated by a visit to the Gwynedd Museum Bangor.
Self Drive Day Tour: Folkstone Excavation: Sunday 7th August
The extensive Roman villa above the cliffs at East Wear Bay, Folkstone in Kent has been known since the early 1920s when the main residential structures were excavated by Samuel Winbolt. Since that date coastal erosion has placed a greater threat on the site's survival. In 2009 a three year community project was initiated, led by the Canterbury Archaeology Trust, in order to recover as much information as possible from this highly significant site.
Self Drive Day Tour: Silchester Excavation: Saturday 13th August
After 14 years the research excavation on Insula IX of the Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester) has reached the Late Iron Age levels of the Atrebatic oppidum sealed beneath the Roman civitias capital. AS the major oppidum of the Atrebates, Calleva became the northern capital of Togidubnus, the client king reinstated to Britain following the Claudian conquest. Professor Michael Fulford is Director of the Silchester Roman Town Insula IX 'Town Life' Project and Amanda Clarke is the Silchester Field Director. They escorted us around the site in 1997 and 2004 and this year will explain the current excavations after outlining progress so far, and show members work on small finds, and other data discovered this season. There will also be an opportunity to explore the standing remains of the walls, gates and amphitheatre of Roman Silchester.
ARA Study Tour to Jordan: 22nd September to 2nd October 2010
This comprehensive and exclusive tour should not be compared with other tours of Jordan. The itinerary has been specifically designed for the ARA and will incorporate sites not usually frequented by other commercial tour companies.
The tour will be lead by Sam Moorhead of the British Museum who is an expert on the archaeology, sites and monuments of Jordan and has visited them frequently. While the tour is concentrating on the Roman sites and Rome's influence on the indigenous culture, we will be taking advantage of other significant historic sites in the region. The itinerary will aim to include:
City tour of Roman Amman, Iraq Al-Amir, Qasr alAbd; Jerash; Um Qais; Kharraneh, Amra, Azraq and Um Jimal castles; Mount Nebo; Madaba; Mkawer; Petra; Shobak; Little Petra; Wadi Rum; Lejjun; Kerak; Lot's Cave; and Baptism site.
Annual General Meeting and Symposium: The British Museum: 26th November
For the Symposium Booking Form please click here
The ARA's Annual General Meeting and Symposium will be held in the Stevenson Theatre, starting at 10.30am.
The Symposium will be held in the larger Clore Theatre; this will allow us to hold a joint event with The Roman Society. The Symposium will be a special session commemorating the 1800th anniversary of the death of Emperor Septimius Severus.
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2010
Annual Dinner Weekend - Roman Forts of the Saxon Shore in Hampshire - Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th June
This particular Annual Dinner has been arranged as part of the series of tours to the Roman Forts of the Saxon Shore, in Britain and Northern France. On Sunday there will be a vist to the preserved fort at Porchester Castle, the fort at Bitterne and God's House Tower Museum in Southampton.
The after dinner speaker on saturday will be Dr. Andy Russel.
Long Weekend Summer Tour - Forts of the Saxon Shore, Part 2 - Friday 9th - Monday 12th July
This tour forms the second in the Saxon Shore Forts series of summer excursions, in particular looking at the military installations around the Norfolk coast.
Among the sites to be visited over the weekend will be Burgh Castle (Gariannonum), Brancaster (Branodunum); Warhap Camp; Caistor-on-Sea fort, Reedham Saxon church; Caistor St Edmund (Venta Icenorum) and Norwich Castle Museum.
Dr Will Bowden will escort the visitors around his research site at Caistor St Edmund. There will also be another guest guide and several guest lecturers during the weekend.
Self Drive Day Tour - The Hallaton Treasue and All Saints Church, Brixworth (Leicestershire and Northamptonshire) - Saturday 21st August
Following concerns over the feasibility of a scheduled ARA tour to Germania for "Romans on the Rhine & the Moselle" a revision of numbers and coach requirements allowed the trip to go ahead between 4th October and 11th October 2010
Annual General Meeting. The British Museum. November.
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2009
May 16/17th Annual Dinner and Roman Wiltshire, Basingstoke
June 13/14th Roman Villas in Britain Conference, British Museum
August 14/17th Forts of the Saxon Shore, Ashford, Kent
Sept 20th Roman London (Mr M Stone)
November 20/27th Classical and Roman Libya (Mr B Walters)
December 5th Annual General Meeting, The British Museum
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2008
1st -9th April: Roman Bulgaria (Prof Andrew Poulter)
25th May: Roman Wales (Caerleon and Caerwent) (Mr B Walters)
25th-28th July: Antonine Wall (Dr N Hodgson)
23rd-24th August: Roman Chester (Deva: Dr T Willmot)
21st Sept: Roman St Albans (Verulamium) (Mr B Walters)
15t Nov: Annual General Meeting The British Museum
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