CIfA Cymru-Wales Group AGM, "Timber Buildings in Wales Day-school"

 Registration is closed for this event
The Annual General Meeting will precede a Day event focusing on timber buildings in Wales.

 

                  

 

Price: £20 for CIfA or Grwp Cymru/Wales Group members
£30 for non-members

AGM attendance is free for all members

Description

The session is a re-scheduling of the timber day-school which was cancelled last year. The purpose of the session is to increase the knowledge and profile around timber buildings in Wales.

Featured presenters:

Dr George Nash is employed by SLR Consulting in Shrewsbury and has just completed one of the UK’s largest dendrochronology projects

Stephen Briggs undertook post-graduate work on the prehistory of mid-Ulster and thereafter several projects at RCAHMW over 33 years. In retirement since 2006 he has written and lectured on a variety of antiquarian topics together with bog bodies, implement petrography and historic gardens.

Margaret Dunn M.Phil M.Ed has been involved with education, youthwork, archaeology & community history projects since the early 1960s. Since 2005 she has led “Discovering Old Welsh Houses” which works with communities to find, research, record & where possible date pre1700 houses.

Ian Brooks is Director of Engineering Archaeological Services Ltd, based in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd.

Richard Suggett FSA is a Senior Investigator at the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales

Ross Cook is a Buildings Archaeologist and Dendrochronologist, specialising in the buildings of Wales and England. He runs a small practice called ArchaeoDomus from his home in Lampeter.

Programme

From 9.45 – Registration
10.00 – Group AGM
10.30 – Ross Cook Dendrochronology: the boring science
11.15 – Tea
11.30 – George Nash The Tilley Timber Project: A HLF dendrochronology project in the northern Marches
12.15 – Margaret Dunn Discovering Old Welsh Houses: Dendrochronology and Community Involvement in Rural North Wales
13.00 – Lunch
13.45 – Stephen BriggsRe-discovering Baltic Softwood, a neglected construction necessity in War and Peace
14.30 – Ian Brooks11 Castle Street, Conwy
15.15 – Richard SuggettCrucks Galore!
16.00 – Close

AGM Agenda

10.00 – 10.05     Apologies and Minutes of last AGM
10.05 – 10.10     Matters Arising – adoption of CIfA Constitution and transfer of finances
10.10 – 10.20     Officers Reports
                           Chair report
                           Secretary report
                           Treasurer report
                           Advisory Council Report
                           Research Framework Report
10.20 - 10.25      Vote on Committee Members
10.20 – 10.25     Any Other Business
10.30 – 10.30     Date & Venue of next AGM

Additional info

November 8th, 2019 9:45 AM (BST/UTC+1)   to   4:00 PM (BST/UTC+1)
Owain Glydwr Centre
Heol Maengwyn
Machynlleth, Powys SY20 8EE
United Kingdom
Phone: 0118 966 2841
Email:
CIfA or Wales Group member £ 20.00
Non-member (includes one year group membership) £ 30.00
AGM only (lunch not included) £ 0.00

CIfA or Wales Group member £ 20.000000000
Non-member (includes one year group membership) £ 30.000000000
AGM only (lunch not included) £ 0.000000000