Upcoming Events calendar

To sign up to any of our events please Contact us with your name and the event you will be attending.

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The calendar above shows scheduled events from the Worthing Archaeological Society and associated local organisations.  Click event on calendar for further information.  To filter the type of the events shown, use the drop-down arrow on the top-right of the calendar.  N.B. dates, times and locations of events not organised by WAS should be confirmed with the organizers.

The WAS Lecture Programme for 2024 is available and can be downloaded as a printable pdf
Please note, lectures could change subject to unforeseen issues.

Next 'WAS' events

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For lectures, members have free entry and visitors are asked to make a donation of £4 to the society.
For excavations, a day membership can be purchased for £5.

8 October
2024

Lecture: The Story of Highdown Hill
Presented by James Sainsbury
Archaeologist and Curator of Archaeology at Worthing Museum and Art Gallery

James will deliver a lecture on the fascinating history of Highdown Hill. From Bronze Age enclosure and Iron Age fort through to Roman residence and Anglo-Saxon cemetery, this talk will take an in-depth look at one of Worthing's most famous hills. New and exciting research will be discussed, including future plans for further study that could challenge the established history of the site forever.

26 October
2024

Day School: Medieval Pottery
Presented by Luke Barber at at Worthing Museum and Art Gallery.

Luke Barber will be looking at the pottery likely to be found in Sussex in the Saxon and Medieval periods. We will be covering the period 1350 to 1500/50. The day will be split into sessions of Early, Mid, Late Saxon, Saxo-Norman, High Medieval and Late Medieval.  Local wares/fabrics will always be the most common finds on excavations but non-local English and imported types that may be discovered in different periods will also be reviewed. 

There will be sample sherds for us to look at and some practical sorting sessions to practise grouping and dating fabrics.

12 November
2024

Con Ainsworth Memorial Lecture: Coast at Work; Continuity and Change
Presented by Dr Geoffrey Mead
Associate Tutor Sussex University and Sussex Landscape expert

Geoffrey is passionate about the Sussex landscape, with a fantastic local knowledge of its geography and evolution over millions of years.
'The coast at work' looks at the variety and connectivity of many aspects of coastal employment along the Sussex shoreline from fishing and boat building, to hotels and holiday camps; the talk looks at aspects of the working coast past and present.

23 November
2024

Day School: Post Medieval Sussex
Presented by Simon Stevens

At at Worthing Museum and Art Gallery.

10 December
2024

Lecture: Rooted in History, Branching into the Future: The Story of the Nation’s Forests
Presented by Dr Lawrence Shaw
Archaeologist, Lead Historic Environment Advisor Forestry England

The nation’s forests are home to some of the best archaeological sites, historic buildings and designed landscapes found in England. Evidence of how humans have shaped these places can be found frozen in time, hidden beneath the tree canopy. The unique nature of forestry, when compared to other land uses, means that our historic record has the potential to be preserved to a much higher degree, with tens of thousands of known sites, and more than 850 protected monuments, buildings and parks and gardens found throughout our forests. How the Forestry Commission developed, how we acquired land and how this has been managed over the last one hundred years, means that Forestry England now oversees a palimpsest of landscape histories, ranging from the Palaeolithic through to the Second World War, as well as our own histories. This lecture will touch on just some of the incredible archaeological and historical narratives that can be found within the Nation’s Forest and how Forestry England has influenced these.

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