Dorset
July 2, 2022
Tour of Dorchester Water Meadows | Ian Gosling
A guided walk across Dorchester’s water meadows
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July 2, 2022
What Lies Beneath Max Gate? | Martin Papworth
An online event, streamed from Max Gate with National Trust archaeologist Martin Papworth; Hardy’s Wessex curator Harriet Still and Wiltshire Museum director David Dawson
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July 2, 2022
Nature Walk: Maiden Castle | Miles King
A delightful family-friendly amble across Poundbury fields to enjoy the natural habitat and extensive views across the landscape
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July 2, 2022
Outer Casterbridge: Hardy and History | Mark Damon Chutter
Join Mark Chutter on a guided walk of Outer Casterbridge and the landscape so familiar and beloved by Thomas Hardy.
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July 2, 2022
Dorchester Archaeological Dowsing Walk | Peter Emery
Try your hand at Archaeological dowsing with Peter Emery, retired field Archaeologist.
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July 2, 2022
Poundbury Hillfort and The Great Field | Miles King
A delightful family-friendly amble across Poundbury fields to enjoy the natural habitat and extensive views across the landscape
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July 2, 2022
The History and Mystery of Maiden Castle | Gary Biltcliffe
A guided tour of Maiden Castle to explore its origins, myths and legends with Gary Biltcliffe, author of ‘The Spirit of Portland‘.
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June 20, 2022
VIP Archaeology: From the Neolithic to the Medieval, the archaeology of the Dorset Visual Impact Provision | John Boothroyd
Working on behalf of National Grid on its Dorset Visual Impact Provision (VIP) just outside Dorchester, a team of more than 25 archaeologists spent almost two years excavating and recording a wealth of evidence for human activity dating back 6000 years.
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June 20, 2022
The Durotriges Project | Paul Cheetham
Of all the Iron Age tribes identified from pre-Roman Britain, the Durotriges are the most culturally distinct. Roughly occupying an area that equates with modern Dorset, together with significant parts of southern Wiltshire and south-eastern Somerset, the pottery, coinage, settlements and burial practices of the Durotriges clearly marks them out from their contemporary tribal neighbours the Atrebates, Belgae, Dumnonii and Dobunni.
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