RFG Autumn Conference – Recent Finds from Volunteer Excavations in the Roman World

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The Roman Finds Group Autumn 2025 Conference is entitled Recent Finds from Volunteer Excavations in the Roman World. This will be held online via the Zoom platform on Friday 31st October 2025, 9.30-16.30 GMT.

The conference is free for all to attend. Booking must be made via this website. When you book you will receive a confirmation email and the conference link with the final programme and abstracts will be emailed to you closer to the conference date.

Recent Finds from Volunteer Excavations in the Roman World. Friday 31st October 2025. 9.30-16.30 GMT

Conference Programme:

Session One

Chair: Katie Mountain (RFG)

09.20         Zoom in & Welcome

9.30          Marta Alberti-Dunn (Deputy Director of Excavations, Vindolanda Trust): Vindolanda – Finds and Research

9.55          Marc Johnstone (Project Officer/ICT Officer, The Archaeological Practice Ltd.): Bremenium Roman Fort (High Rochester), Northumberland: a provisional summary of finds recovered from the 2025 season community dig

10.20        Rachel Frame (Senior Archaeologist for the Magna Project, Vindolanda Trust): Dumped in the Ditch: key finds from the north ditches at Magna fort

10.45     Coffee Break

Session Two

Chair: TBC

11.15        Bill Annan (SOAG Vice-Chair/Project lead, South Oxfordshire Archaeology Group): Finds from a recently discovered villa near Faringdon, Oxfordshire

11.40        Ruth Beveridge (Small Finds Specialist, SLR Consulting): Down the drain: the glass bead assemblage from the Severan bathhouse drains. Uncovering Roman Carlisle project

12.05        Laura Parker (Community Engagement Manager, York Archaeology): We Dig Derventio

12.30    Lunch Break

Session Three

Chair: Frances McIntosh (RFG)

13.30        Peter Halkon (Emeritus Fellow, University of Hull; Hon. Research Fellow. Department of Archaeology, University of York; Chair East Riding Archaeological Society): Petuaria ReVisited – recent finds from Roman Brough on Humber, East Yorkshire, UK

13.55        Ben Swain (Business Manager, DigVentures): Digging the Romans of East Yorkshire

14.20        Natasha Harlow (Honorary Research Fellow, University of Nottingham): Recent Excavations at Venta Icenorum by the Caistor Roman Project

14.45     Coffee Break

Session Four

Chair: Rachel Frame (RFG)

15.15        Stuart Campbell (Trimontium Trust, University of Manchester): Finding a community: metal detecting, fieldwalking and finds processing around Newstead

15.40        Anca Timofan (Senior Archaeologist, Archaeology-Research Department, National Museum of Unification Alba Iulia, Romania): The City Beneath the City: Discovering Roman Apulum alongside Grampus Heritage & Training Volunteers in Alba Iulia (2023)

16.05        Ian Regueiro and Rachele Dubbini (Università degli Studi di Ferrara): Appia Antica 39: Community Archaeology in the First Mile of the Appian Way in Rome

16:30 CONCLUSIONS AND END