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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Clive Peacock Memorial Award 2020
The Clive Peacock Award for 2020 goes to someone who has been quietly and efficiently organising BACAS excursions for many[…]
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AGM, and Projects Presentations – Thursday 13 February 2020
The Annual General Meeting of the Society will take place at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution on Thursday[…]
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New report : Westwood Church
A wall memorial dating to 1824 inside St Mary the Virgin Church, Westwood, near Bradford on Avon Wiltshire, notes the[…]
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New reports: Lilliput Farm and Coffin Field, Saltford
BACAS has published two new reports, on Lilliput Farm, Cold Ashton, and the Coffin Field, Saltford. The southern slopes of[…]
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Bath Abbey Footprint Project Update – Cai Mason, Wessex Archaeology – 12 December 2019
The Bath Abbey Footprint Project is a Heritage Lottery Fund project to repair the Abbey’s collapsing floor, install a new[…]
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New reports: Charmy Down and Cameley Church
Two new reports have been published today. The first is “Geophysical Survey, Hollies Lane, Batheaston, July 2019” by Tom Jackson[…]
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Cirencester after the Romans: time for a rethink? : Prof Mark Horton FSA : 13 November 2019
Mark Horton has recently become an Emeritus Professor at Bristol University after 25 years as an academic there and more[…]
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