CONGRESS OF INDEPENDENT ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Selwyn College, Cambridge

19th - 20th September 1987

Programme

19th September

10.00 Coffee

10.45 Opening remarks

11.00 First discussion session: What is the role of the "Professional" in Archaeology?

Chairman: Derrick Riley Leading speakers: Peter Farmer, Michael Thompson, Maxwell Fleming, Andrea Bullock, Teresa Briscoe, then open to the floor.

12.00 Second Discussion session: To dig, or not to dig?

Chairman: Peter Clayton.
Leading speakers: Malcolm Lyne, Gwenno Caffell, Tony Rook

1.15 Lunch.

2.15 Case Studies, 1
Chairman: Henry Cleere

Richard Bellhouse: Bowness and Blackholme Edge
Teresa and Diana Briscoe: Anglo Saxon Pot Stamps: trade marks or tribal
symbols?
Gwenno Caffell: Recent discoveries in Gwynnedd
Kevan Fadden: No question to answer on the Ampthill by pass
Diana Friendship Taylor: The Piddington Roman Villa
Richard Hornsey: Le Grand Menhir Brise: Success or Failure?
Peter Huggins: Latest radiocarbon dates from Waltham Abbey
Keith Scott: Mancetter aitd other Roman sites
John Hope: Excavations in Braintree
Peter and Nita Farmer: Recent research on Scarborough Ware
Malcolm Lyne: Alice Holt: An experimental kiln firing and other work

4.15 Tea


4.45 Case Studies 2

Geoffrey Mein: Latest disasters in Monmouth
Edwina Proudfoot: Scotland without MSC
Betty Rennie: Explaining the recessed platforms of the West of Scotland
Joan Schneider: The Manshead Society: problems of a second generation
Tony Rook: Latest discoveries in Welwyn
Derrick Riley: Air photography around the world
Brian Wrigley: Sword Fighting in the Bronze Age

6.15 End of Session

7.30 Conference Dinner

Sunday 20th September

9.30 Third Discussion session: Expertise: how do local societies acquire
it? Do we need a network of amateur experts (e.g. in Samian ware)? Do Universities and extra mural departments provide the right sort of back up for local societies?
Chairman: Michael Thompson
Opening speakers: Peter Clayton, Richard Hornsey, Roy Friendship Taylor,
Brian Wrigley

10.30 Coffee

11.00 Fourth Discussion Session. Museums and "Public" Archaeology

Opening speakers: Kevan Fadden, Jim Pickering

12.00 Final session, and Resolutions

1.00 Lunch

2.15 Workshop session (optional): Computers for the archaeologist.

Theoretical session:
2.15 Theresa and Diana Briscoe: The Anglo Saxon Pot Stamp Archive
2.25 Trevor and Patricia Reynolds: Computer analysis of a graveyard
2.35 Calibrate your own radiocarbon dates: the Seattle programme

2.45 Practical Session:
Introduction: Which Computer: Andrew Selkirk
The session then divides into:
The IBM and its clones: Andrew Selkirk
Getting the beast working, DOS, Word processing with PC Write, Data bases,
Utilities, DOS again (ramdisks, the autoexec.bat file, etc).
Amstrad: Teresa and Diana Briscoe, Trevor and Patricia Reynolds

18th September 1987

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