While we have been doing geophysics on Lansdown since 2018, we have been hampered by very poor LiDAR coverage to supplement[…]
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Festival of Archaeology – Digital Week
The Festival of Archaeology goes online, 11-19 July The Council for British Archaeology’s Festival is going digital next week. It[…]
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Lectures Programme 2020/21
These are uncertain times, but BACAS have made tentative plans for the next Lecture Series. The members will be kept[…]
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The source of the stone for Roman Bath
Building Roman Bath required a lot of stone, around 500,000 cubic metres. Although it has been assumed that it came[…]
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New report : Comparison of TR and RM Frobisher resistance meters for profiling
BACAS has acquired two new RM Frobisher TAR3 resistance meters, courtesy of the Bathscape project, which will be put into[…]
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BACAS has changed its charity status
BACAS has become a Charitable Incorporated Organisation with a new number (1189630) and a posh certificate. The BACAS Chair, Henry Lowe,[…]
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New report : Royal Victoria Park
A series of geophysics surveys over the accessible areas in the section of the Royal Victoria Park between the Upper[…]
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New report : Paddock Field, Lansdown
Up on the Lansdown plateau is the remains of an enclosure, visible on aerial photographs and with some earthworks still[…]
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Coronavirus – BACAS cancels excursions and suspends fieldwork
Updated 17 March: to include the information that all excursions for 2020 have been cancelled. Following the general advice from[…]
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Gaining World Heritage Status – Prof Barry Gilbertson – Thursday 12th March
Bath’s Inscription on the world list in 1987 makes it one of only two cities in Europe with a citywide[…]
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