Partner Event: SHERF Conference : Defensive Structures: Symbols of Power?

The annual Research Framework conference will be held online on Saturday 26th November 2022. The programme is below:

SURREY HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH FRAMEWORK CONFERENCE

SATURDAY 26TH NOVEMBER 2022

DEFENSIVE STRUCTURES: SYMBOLS OF POWER?

Held via Zoom

10.00     Chair: Emma Corke (Chair, Research Committee)

10.10     Paul Ferris (Independent Researcher): ‘The last line’- an archaeological evaluation of the 1940 anti-invasion defences between Guildford and Dorking

10.50     Peter Mills and Michael Hutchinson (Mills Whipp Research): London’s Civil War Defences Reviewed: Symbols of Power and Control

11.30     Break

11.40     William Wyeth (English Heritage): Door and Peace: examples of new thinking on English castles

12.20     Questions

12.30     Lunch

13.30     Chair

13.35     Stuart Brookes (University College, London): Hiding and finding in Viking age Wessex

14.15     Krysia Truscoe (Forestry England): Defence or display? The role of linear earthworks in the landscapes of Late Iron Age territorial oppida

14.55     Break

15.05     Barney Harris (University College, London): Linear modelling: interrogating defence and power in the context of linear earthworks in the landscape

15.45     Questions and close

Online booking will be available in September using PayPal with a fee of £5