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Events and Activities

Next event
Lecture

Rings, Mounds, and Pits: Recent Prehistoric Discoveries from the Hornsea Three Project, Norfolk

Annual Joint Lecture with Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society
Joshua White, Oxford Archaeology

Lecture abstract coming soon...

Next event
Lecture

Found Architecture: Places Becoming Monuments in Northern Britain

Joint annual lecture with Cambridge Antiquarian Society (in person event)
Prof. Richard Bradley

Twentieth century fieldwork in Britain had many emphases but one of the most influential was the identification and classification of different types of prehistoric monuments. It was not always easy to distinguish between ruined structures left by ancient people and geological formations that often resembled them. The problem was most severe in highland regions. This distinction was based on the contrast in Western thought between nature and culture.

New work in Scotland and Northern England has weakened this contrast.