news – BACAS

New report : Pineapple House, Prior Park

Ralph Allen, the Bath stone entrepreneur of Combe Down, built Prior Park Mansion in the 1730s and like many wealthy[…]

The Glastonbury Thorn: Story of a Legend, Adam Stout, Green & Pleasant Publishing. Hardcover, 156 pages, plus 16 pages of colour plates. £12.99.[…]

Roman Britain… And Where to Find It Denise Allen and Mike Bryan “A delightful, well researched & written book, recommended[…]

Lawrence James Scott, who died in August after a long illness at the age of 83, was a long-time member[…]

While we have been doing geophysics on Lansdown since 2018, we have been hampered by very poor LiDAR coverage to supplement[…]

Building Roman Bath required a lot of stone, around 500,000 cubic metres. Although it has been assumed that it came[…]

BACAS has acquired two new RM Frobisher TAR3 resistance meters, courtesy of the Bathscape project, which will be put into[…]

BACAS has become a Charitable Incorporated Organisation with a new number (1189630) and a posh certificate. The BACAS Chair, Henry Lowe,[…]

A series of geophysics surveys over the accessible areas in the section of the Royal Victoria Park between the Upper[…]

Up on the Lansdown plateau is the remains of an enclosure, visible on aerial photographs and with some earthworks still[…]