Upcoming Events calendar
To sign up to any of our events please Contact us with your name and the event you will be attending.
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.
Please note, lectures could change subject to unforeseen issues.
Next 'WAS' events
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.
For excavations, a day membership can be purchased for £5.
6 July
2024 |
Visit: Tour of Rocky Clump
Come along and join us for a tour of Rocky Clump on Saturday 6th July. We will be shown around by John Funnell of Brighton and Hove Archaeological Society. We will meet in the car park (BN1 9QB) at 10.30am. The directions to the car park are as follows: Take the Hollingbury turn off (the one after the A23/A27 junction). Go up the slip road and keep heading up the hill, don’t go right into ASDA! Take the next left to Ditchling Beacon (it is steep). The car park is about 200 metres along on the right. We’ll ask for a small donation towards the costs of the dig. |
15 July - 3 August
2024 |
Dig: Sompting Malthouse/Whitehouse
A dig in the SW corner of the field, and to investigate possible houses on the east side of Church Lane. Meanwhile the Research Group is finding lots of information about the area. More details to follow. |
10 - 23 August
2024 |
Dig: The Burpham Big Dig
A joint project led by Worthing Museum to excavate 30 1m x 1m test pits at Burpham near Arundel and adjacent hamlets. Work to be undertaken in conjunction with the local community. More details to follow. |
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. |
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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