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Event start: 16 October , 2020

Event end: 17 October , 2020

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1st century AD dog-headed relief cavalry harness fitting, found in Lincoln. Image copyright Christopher Carswell, Allen Archaeology.

Archaeology Conference

Our 2020 Conference, originally scheduled for April, and then October has moved online. Sixteen illustrated papers will be presented in blended content (some pre-recorded and some live) using the zoom platform on Friday 16th October and Saturday 17th October. With particular thanks to Glasgow University LEADS (Learning Enhancement and Academic Development Service) who have provided the zoom facility.

The Roman Finds Group 2020 Conference in association with the University of Glasgow and Historic Environment Scotland.

Our 2020 Conference, originally scheduled for April, and then October has moved online. Sixteen illustrated papers will be presented in blended content (some pre-recorded and some live) using the zoom platform on Friday 16th October and Saturday 17th October. With particular thanks to Glasgow University LEADS (Learning Enhancement and Academic Development Service) who have provided the zoom facility.

How’s it all going to work?

To join the conference please let either Louisa Campbell (Louisa.Campbell@glasgow.ac.uk) or Stephen Greep (sjgreep@gmail.com) know and they will send you the Conference zoom link. The conference is split into three sessions, with papers mostly twenty minutes each. There will be a thirty minute ‘coffee break’ in the middle of each session, so each session will last between two and a half and three hours (depending on the number of questions). Some papers are going to be pre-recorded some are going to be live. You may ask questions of the presenter (live papers) by using the zoom chat function. The Chair of each session will note these and summarise at the end of the presentation. Some presenters of pre-recorded papers will also be available to answer questions at the end of their papers. A final programme will be sent to all participants closer to the date of the conference

You can dip in and out of sessions as often as you like, but the responsibility for joining and leaving will be yours. Due to the nature of the conference advertised timings will be approximate. Following the conference, we hope to make as many of the papers available on our web site as we can (and copyright permits).

Whether you join to listen to one paper, just one session or the whole thing there are no costs to you.

New to zoom?

You can try out zoom here – https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115002262083. But don’t worry, if you are still unsure, there will be a ‘mock’ event to give you a go on Wednesday 14th October at 17.00. If you want to try this just email Stephen Greep (sjgreep@gmail.com) and he will send you the link to join the meeting. This should only last 15 minutes or so.

Conference Programme

(please note due to the nature of the conference timings are approximate and liable to change – a final programme will be sent to all participants closer to the Conference)

Day One: Friday 16th October 2020
Session One: Roman Scotland

10.00 Dr Louisa Campbell, University of Glasgow: Paints and Pigments in the Past: The Antonine Wall Distance Stones (PRE RECORDED)
10.25 Dr Fraser Hunter, National Museum of Scotland: Surprises in the stores: exotic stone vessels from the Antonine Wall zone (LIVE)
10.50 Dr Mike Bishop, Editor, JRMES: Now the wild had flowed in again: the Trimontium military equipment revisited (PRE RECORDED)
11.15 COFFEE BREAK
11.45 Professor David Breeze: The distribution of pottery and small finds at Bearsden. (LIVE)
12.10 Keynote lecture: Professor Rebecca Jones, Head of Archaeology and World Heritage for Historic Environment Scotland: Roman Scotland and the Antonine Wall (PRE RECORDED)
12.45 SESSION END

Session Two: Roman Scotland and the North

14.00 Kathleen Clifford, University of Glasgow The Castledykes Vicus: Exploring Settlement Trends through Material Culture (LIVE)
14.25 Dr.Tatiana Ivleva, University of Newcastle: Curious case of Scottish glass bangles: re-assessing typology, distribution, manufacture and use (PRE RECORDED/LIVE)
14.50 Douglas Carr, University of Newcastle: Roman coins from Hadrian’s Wall and the Northern Frontier (PRE RECORDED)
15.20 COFFEE BREAK
15.50 Katie Mountain, University of Newcastle: The typology and chronology of Roman disc brooches in Northern Britain (PRE RECORDED)
16.15 Dr James Gerrard1, University of Newcastle: The 1864 Knaresborough Hoard: rediscovery, re-evaluation and a probable findspot.(LIVE)

Day Two: Saturday 17th October 2020
Session Three: Vindolanda and the North

10.00 Dr Anneke Hackenbroich, Vindolanda Trust: Vindolanda’s wooden collection – 3D imaging and digitisation (PRE RECORDED)
10.25 Tim Penn2, University of Edinburgh: Gaming boards, military communities and the transmissions of ideas: the view from Hadrian’s Wall (LIVE)
10.50 Barbara Birley, Vindolanda Trust: Stories from the Frontier, using digital gameplay to engage children at Vindolanda (LIVE)
11.05 COFFEE BREAK
11.35 Marta Alberti: Vindolanda Trust Spinning on the Frontier: the making, use and discard of female identities at Vindolanda and Corbridge (LIVE)
12.00 Rhys Williams3, Teesside University: Digitising Vindolanda: From Excavation to Museum (PRE RECORDED)
12.25 Barbara Birley, Vindolanda Trust: Recent finds from Vindolanda (LIVE)
12.50 CONCLUSIONS AND END

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