Cintusmus the Copper-smith inscription detail. Image Credit Colchester Museums
Jun 2024
Zoom in on Finds and Annual General Meeting An RFG Member only seminar and AGM (19.30) Women Doing Everything, Everywhere, All at once Lexi Diggins (Archaeologist and Exhibition Curator) I’m an archaeologist who grew up near the Roman town of Verulamium. I was invited by…
Mar 2024
Save the date for the next RFG conference, to be held on Friday 8th and Saturday 9th March 2024. Tickets: scroll to the bottom of the page to purchase the tickets This year’s spring Conference is being held in association with the University of Reading,…
Jul 2023
Zoom in on Finds A RFG Member only seminar (18.00 – 19.15). Past, Present and Future of Roman Military Equipment Mike Bishop and John Coulston After producing a small, 76-page booklet on the subject of Roman military equipment in 1989, we expanded this into a…
Apr 2023
Archaeology Conference The RFG spring 2023 meeting was being held in association with the University of Nottingham and its Museum. There were five sessions of papers with twenty one illustrated talks, on various aspects of finds from recent work in the Roman Midlands and beyond….
Apr 2023
Zoom in on Finds A RFG Member only seminar (18.00 – 19.15). Lanam fecit without tombstones? Expression of status through wool-working items in graves Dr Kaja Stemberger Flegar This paper aims to address the finds of textile working items in supposed female graves from Roman…
Oct 2022
Archaeology Conference The 2022 Autumn Meeting was be held online on the zoom platform. 20 papers and four ‘gallery tours’ . Conference Programme Day One: Friday 7th October 2022 Session One Chair and Welcome: Frances McIntosh (English Heritage/RFG) 09.00 Dr David Petts (University of…
Aug 2022
Zoom in on Roman Finds A RFG Member only evening seminar Edwin Wood, University College, London: Disarming Armillae Armilla were awarded to Roman soldiers for displays of valour on the battlefield. In 2005, Crummy postulated that a particular form of wide cuff bracelet may have…
May 2022
Archaeology Conference The 2022 RFG Spring Meeting was held at Carlisle, in association with Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery and supported by Carlisle City Council. The title was New Research on Finds from Roman Carlisle and the West of Hadrian’s Wall. Delegates were able…
Jan 2022
Zoom in on Finds A RFG Member only seminar (18.00 – 19.15). Re-examining the Rubers Law hoard Fraser Hunter, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh In 1863 a hoard of bronze vessels and other items was found on the slopes of the hillfort of Rubers Law,…
Dec 2021
Zoom in on Finds This is the first joint seminar held between Roman Finds Group and Finds Research Group – just for a bit of fun before Christmas. Tuesday December 14th, 18.00 – 19.15. Short fire papers of no more than five minutes on the…
Nov 2021
Zoom in on Finds A RFG Member only seminar, the fifth in our series of evening seminars (18.00 – 19.15). Roman and late antique footwear in the UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Jo Stoner: University of Kent, Canterbury The UCL Petrie Museum of…
Oct 2021
Archaeology Conference The 2021 Autumn Roman Finds Group Conference held in association with King’s College London was entitled Roman Finds from Infrastructure Projects. Ongoing uncertainties about the pandemic have meant that it was, once again, more practical to hold the meeting online, this time using…
Sep 2021
Zoom in on Finds A RFG Member only seminar, two talks to coincide with the publication of the Piercebridge finds volume (18.00 – 19.15). Bridge over troubled water: Roman finds from the Tees at Piercebridge Hella Eckardt, University of Reading and Philippa Walton, Cotswold Archaeology…
Jul 2021
Zoom in on Finds A RFG Member only seminar (18.00 – 19.15). Ryedale Ritual Bronzes: the FLO’s perspective Amy Downes (South and West Yorkshire) Amy will talk about a group of copper-alloy objects discovered near Ampleforth North Yorkshire which comprises a likely votive deposit. The…
May 2021
Zoom in on Finds A RFG Member only seminar (18.00 – 19.15). An introduction to Roman phallic imagery: magic, morphology, and materials Adam Parker, Yorkshire Museum Trust Adam will introduce the theme of phallic imagery in Roman art and archaeology, based on his ongoing PhD…
Apr 2021
Archaeology Conference The 2021 Spring Roman Finds Group Conference held in association with the University of Exeter is entitled New Research on Finds from the Roman South-West. It is an open access (free) online conference on the zoom platform with six sessions and 23 illustrated…
Mar 2021
Zoom in on Finds A RFG Member only seminar (18.00 – 19.15). The Headstud-Trumpet brooch series and traditions of dress in Roman Britain Victoria Szafara, University of Leicester Victoria will discuss her ongoing research into the Headstud-Trumpet series of brooches in Roman Britain. Through an…
Oct 2020
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…
Nov 2019
The Roman Finds Group Autumn Conference in association with Colchester and Ipswich Museums Monday November 11th 2019 (with the option of a pre meeting (10th November) walking tour of Roman Colchester) The 2019 RFG Autumn Meeting is based at the Colchester Castle Museum and will…
Jun 2019
Archaeology Conference The Roman Finds Group, Later Prehistoric Finds Group and Finds Research Group in collaboration with King’s College London and Instrumentum International Meetings; with grateful thanks to The Roman Society for financial support. 12th–14th June 2019 CONFERENCE INFORMATION The conference will begin at 10.30am…
Oct 2018
The Roman Finds Group Autumn Conference – Finds for the dead in Roman London and beyond The 2018 RFG Autumn Meeting is based at Museum of London Docklands and will be a one-day conference on Monday 15th October. It is being organised jointly with the…
Mar 2018
Roman Finds Group Canterbury Meeting : “Richborough and Beyond” Saturday 24th –Sunday 25th March 2018 at Kent University (Canterbury Campus) This coming spring the Roman Finds Group meeting will tie in with a large project on the small finds from the 1920-30s excavations at Richborough….
Oct 2017
Friday 20th – Saturday 21st October 2017 at Salisbury Museum This year the Roman Finds Group is 30 years old. To celebrate, we’ve organised our 2017 Autumn Meeting in Salisbury, where there will be a special reception. It will be a two-day conference from lunchtime…
Apr 2017
Archaeology Conference The 2017 RFG Spring Meeting was based in St Albans on Friday April 21st, kindly hosted by the Verulamium Museum. The RFG would very much like to thank all those involved with arranging this event. The conference comprised three sessions of papers with…
Sep 2016
Archaeology Conference 9th September 2016 – 10th September 2016 The 2016 RFG Autumn Meeting was based in Reading on Friday 9th and Saturday 10th September. It was hosted by the University of Reading’s Archaeology Department. The RFG would very much like to thank all those…
Apr 2016
Archaeology Conference Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd April 2016 University of York, Philip Rahtz lecture theatre, Kings Manor, York The 2016 RFG Spring Meeting was based in York on Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd April and was held in the Philip Rahtz Lecture Theatre, Kings…
Nov 2015
Archaeology Conference 6th November 2015 The British Museum stagied an exhibition on the Celts in autumn 2015. The RFG, in conjunction with the LPFG (Later Prehistoric Finds Group), hosted a 1-day conference in association with the exhibition. It was held in the Stevenson Theatre of…
Mar 2015
Archaeology Conference 16th – 17th March 2015 The 2015 RFG Spring Meeting was based in Newcastle on Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th March and was jointly hosted by RFG and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Artefact Studies of the University (ncl.ac.uk/historical/about/facilities/cias.htm). There were four sessions of…
Oct 2014
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…
Mar 2014
27th–30th March 2014 Roman Finds Group joined the Study Group for Roman Pottery in sponsoring a session at the Roman Archaeology Conference at the University of Reading. Our session was titled Roman Metal Small Finds in Context: Ellen Swift – Design, function and everyday social…