Charity Registration Number 293998

Dorchester Association for Research into

Local History and Archaeology

in collaboration with Dorset Natural History

and Archaeological Society

Prehistoric Dorchester

Preliminary Programme and Booking Form

A Day School in memory

of Peter Woodward,

Archeologist and former Assistant Curator

of Dorset County Museum

Saturday November 2nd 2019

at The Dorford Centre, Bridport Road,

Dorchester DT1 1RR

Parking available almost opposite in Top o' Town car park or in town centre car parks.

Tickets from Michael Rice, hon.sec@dorchester-association.co.uk

tel. 07780 992799

Members of Dorchester Association and/or DNHAS £20, non-members £25

and students £15.

Dorchester Association for Research into Local history and Archaeology

Registered Charity No. 293998

A Day School in memory

of Peter Woodward,

Archeologist and former

Assistant Curator

of Dorset County Museum

BOOKING FORM

Please send me ( ) ticket(s) for the Prehistoric Dorchester Day School to be held at The Dorford Centre, 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, DT1 1RR on Saturday November 2nd 2019.

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Members of Dorchester Association and/or DNHAS £20, non-members £25

and students £15.

I enclose £......... to cover ( ) members, ( ) non-members, ( ) students (cheques payable to The Dorchester Association)

Return to Michael Rice, Hon. Secretary, The Dorchester Association,

6, Highfield Close, Charminster, Dorchester, Dorset,

DT2 9RW or by hand at meetings

09.30Registration

10.00Welcome by Chris Copson, Chairman of Dorchester Association

10:10Professor Tim Darvill - Early farmers in central southern Britain

10:30Christopher Sparey-Green 'For sight of barrows, I believe not to be equalled in the world' Dorchester's Prehistoric Landscape’

10:50Dr Phil Harding - Flints and the South Dorset Ridgeway

11:10Coffee Break

11:30Alastair Barclay - Re-dating Rowden and the earliest Neolithic pottery of Dorset and beyond

11:50Professor Niall Sharples - Rethinking the chronology of the Neolithic enclosure on Maiden Castle

12:10Peter Cox – Title TBC

12:30Questions

12:50Ann Woodward - Peter in Pictures

13:00Lunch

14:00Dr Mike Allen - 'Dorchester Chalklands: re-analysis of Beaker and prehistoric downland settlement and economy'

14:20Dr Andrew Lawson - 'Twisted, bent and broken' Bronze Age metalwork in Dorset

14:40 Break

15:00Dr Rebecca Redfern -'The Durotriges of Maiden Castle hillfort: a bio-archaeological perspective of life in Iron Age Dorset’ 15:20 Dr Miles Russell - Digging the Durotriges: life and death in the Late Iron Age

15:40 Paul Cheetham - Rome and the end of prehistoric Dorset

16:00 Questions and discussion

16:25 Chris Copson - Summary and thanks.