news – BACAS

Cleaning the stones at Stanton Drew

Fourteen BACAS members turned out at Stanton Drew on 26 May 2021 to help English Heritage’s Win Scutt to clean[…]

John Oswin, together with BACAS colleagues Sophie Hawke, Fiona Medland and Rick Buettner, has developed a novel technique to use[…]

The Clive Peacock Award goes to the nominated member who has made the most important contribution to BACAS over the[…]

The latest issue of the BACAS journal Camertonia 54 is now available for viewing by members. If you are a[…]

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[…]