The Finds Group at 30: celebrating the past, reviewing the present, planning the future

Price: £25 CIfA and Finds Group members
£35 non-group members
(includes one year group membership)

Description

This year’s AGM event marks the 30^th anniversary of the Finds Group. The first part of the day will present a number of papers exploring the development of Finds Research since the inception of the Finds Specialist Interest Group in 1989.

Speakers will be invited from a broad range of specialisms to offer papers exploring the development of finds work, both academic and commercial, new initiatives and collaborative approaches to finds study, and possibilities for the future.

The AGM will be held over lunch, followed by an afternoon exploring the future direction of the Finds Group.

Agenda

10:00 - Arrival, tea and coffee
10:30 - Welcome
Past
10:40 - Duncan H. Brown - 1989 and all that
11:05 - Andrew 'Bone' Jones - A brief look back at the FSIG
Present
11:15 - Jane Evans - Take three girls (development of finds work since 1980s seen through the careers of three pottery specialists at the Herefordshire and Worcestershire County Archaeology Service)
11:40 - Kayt Hawkins - Demographics of the Finds Group and results of our survey
12:05 - Sue Harington - Stuck on the back - textiles on metal artefacts
12:30 - Peter Guest - Understanding Roman coins from Britain: Past, present and future
12:55 - Questions/discussion
13:10 - Lunch
13:40 - AGM
Future
14:00 - Emily V. Johnson - Tho zooarchaeoogical revolution - from food to the future
14:25 - Laura Templeton - Illustration - reconstruction - photography (a 6th century copper alloy 'Coptic' bowl)
14:50 - Imogen Wood - SEM and petrographic analysis to investigate presence of spheroidal slag in a prehistoric vessel
15:15 - Julie Dunne - Taking stock: organic residue analysis (ORA) of Late Iron Age and Roman vessels from Lincolnshire
15:40 - Questions/discussion
15:50 - Louise Rayner - Update on survey in finds reporting and toolkit development
16:10 - Questions/discussion
16:30 - End of day

Additional info

Food will be provided with cost of registration