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Date: 8 October , 2014

Time: 09:30 - 17:00

Event Category:
Staffordshire Pan. Image copyright Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Trust, Carlisle

Archaeology Conference

8th October 2014, Manchester Museum

Click here to read a review of this meeting, written by Bryan Sitch (Deputy Head of Collections and Curator of Archaeology at Manchester Museum).

Programme

9.30-10.00 Registration + Tea/Coffee

10.00 Paul Holder (University of Manchester) – Recent finds of Roman Military Diplomas from Britain

10.30 Norman Redhead (Greater Manchester Archaeology Advisory Service) – Finds from Castleshaw Roman Fort

11.00 Vanessa Oakden (Portable Antiquities Scheme) – Finds beneath our Fields: The Knutsford Hoard

11.30 Bryan Sitch (Manchester Museum) – Manchester Museum collections

12.00-1.30pm Lunch (will feature visits to Museum store)

A relatively long lunch break is planned so there will be time to see material in the reserve collection as well as exxploring the museum and finding something to eat.

1.30-2.00 Barbara Birley (Vindolanda Trust) – Keeping up appearances: the wooden hair combs from Vindolanda

2.00-2.30 Gill Dunn – Recent finds from Chester focusing on finds from the amphitheatre

2.30-3.00 Justine Bayley – Enamelled Roman objects

3.00-3.30  Tea

3.30-4.00 Matthew Ponting (University of Liverpool) – Recent analysis of Roman coins (title tbc)

4.-4.30 Rob Philpott – Roman finds from Meols on the North Wirral shore

4.30-5.00 Discussion and closing remarks

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