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History: Highlights of Saxon Archaeology
Why was Britain's genetic make-up radically changed between 500 and 800 AD/CE? Were the newcomers environmental refugees, pagan plunderes, invaders or missionaries? Who were these new arrivals and what were they doing over here? This course will use recent information on sites, finds and their interpretation to shed new light on Anglo-Saxon Age archaeology in Britain. How and why the migrations took place will be illustrated using new (since 1980) excavation evidence, metal detecting finds, scientific analysis and aeriel remote sensing data.
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Dates:Mon 23/09/2024 -
Mon 21/10/2024Times:1:45pm - 3:45pmDuration:5 sessionsLocation:Grimsby Central Hall & Arts Community Ce
Duncombe Street
Grimsby
DN32 7EGTutor:Simon TomsonCourse code:Q00018375How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:9 places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £42.00
Archaeology: Highlights of Saxon & Viking Archaeology
Why was Britain's genetic make-up radically changed between 500 and 800
AD/CE? Were the newcomers environmental refugees, pagan plunderers,
invaders or missionaries? Who were these new arrivals and what were
they doing over here?
This course will use recent information on sites, finds and their
interpretation to shed new light on Anglo-Saxon Age archaeology in
Britain. How and why the migrations took place will be illustrated using
new (since 1980) excavation evidence, metal detecting finds, scientific
analysis and aerial remote sensing data.
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Course Information
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Dates:Mon 23/09/2024 -
Mon 25/11/2024Times:1:45pm - 3:45pmDuration:5 sessionsLocation:Grimsby Central Hall & Arts Community Ce
Duncombe Street
Grimsby
DN32 7EGTutor:Simon TomsonCourse code:Q00018158How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £42.00
History: Highlights of Saxon Archaeology
Why was Britain's genetic make-up radically changed between 500 and 800 AD/CE? Were the newcomers environmental refugees, pagan plunderers, invaders or missionaries? Who were these new arrivals and what were they doing over here? This course will use recent information on sites, finds and their interpretation to shed new light on Anglo-Saxon Age archaeology in Britain. How and why the migrations took place will be illustrated using new (since 1980) excavation evidence, metal detecting finds, scientific analysis and aerial remote sensing data.
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Dates:Tue 24/09/2024 -
Tue 03/12/2024Times:10:30am - 12:30pmDuration:10 sessionsLocation:The Salvation Army Church & Community Ce
13 Church Street
Louth
LN11 9BSTutor:Simon TomsonCourse code:Q00011695How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:6 places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £84.00
History: Highlights Of British Archaeology: Viking (800 AD) To High Middle Ages
Recent fieldwork allows us to define three distinct phases of Anglo-Scandinavian occupation: raiding, conquest and settlement. Sites at Repton and Torksey provide evidence of Viking Age winter camps from the Conquest Period, whereas spatial analysis of both artefact scatters and place names vividly demonstrate the areas of Norse settlement.
We shall be looking at major developments in shipping technology from the Saxon through to the High Middle Ages, without which none of these invasions, including 1066, would have been possible.
As part of our Medieval studies we shall examine the eclectic Medieval “Voynich Manuscript”. Using the illustrations we shall try to make some sense of it.
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Dates:Mon 27/01/2025 -
Mon 31/03/2025Times:1:45pm - 3:45pmDuration:10 sessionsLocation:Grimsby Central Hall & Arts Community Ce
Duncombe Street
Grimsby
DN32 7EGTutor:Simon TomsonCourse code:Q00018374How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £84.00