SOMERSET ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY

Volume 5: 2012

SANHS Annual General Meeting 2012
AGM and Presidential Address will be convened in the Victoria Park Community Centre, Bridgwater starting at 10 am on 12 May. The Presidential Address is titled 'Sedgemoor Bricks and Tiles'. Agenda and papers can be found here.

Archaeology
Ham Hill Archaeology. 'We are busy processing all that data that we gathered and trying to understand it. This requires initial processing by us- i.e. washing and cataloguing all the finds that were not processed on site before the specialists get to grips with it.' Click here for an update and here for Somerset Historic Environment Record

SANHS Archive Collection
Dr Adrian Webb has put together a set of images illustrating the range of manuscripts from pre-Conquest times to early 20th century in the SANHS Archive collection. These images are available on the website. Click here for a slideshow

Publications
SANHS Proceedings 1912 Vol 58. Papers published in this volume include 'Glastonbury Abbey - Fifth Report on the Discoveries made during the Excavations' by F Bligh Bond FRIBA. Click here to read the first page and visit the 'online shop' where you can purchase the full paper.

Society Matters
Society Autumn Newsletter. Potential material, articles, images and letters, for the Autumn Newsletter should be send to the Office by mail or e-mail before 1 July 2012. A pdf copy of the Newsletter will be made available to members by e-mail after 1 Sept and the paper copy posted out to members just before the last week in Aug. .......... Click here to download the Spring 2012 Newsletter (4 MB)

SANHS Marketing
A SANHS marketing working group has created a marketing leaflet, which complements the Membership application form, to be displayed in Somerset's libraries and museums. ........a pdf copy for local display can be found here.

Check out our galleries of images by clicking here.

Meetings

• 01 May 2012 - Open Days at Fairfield House, Stogursey
• 05 May 2012 - SANHS: Wild Flowers, Birds and Insects of Ash Priors Common
• 08 May 2012 - Recent research into the Henges and Stone Circles of Somerset. WsMANHS
• 09 May 2012 - Important dates in the history of Burnham. NSLH
• 10 May 2012 - Visit to Norton Fitzwarren. B&DAS
• 11 May 2012 - SANHS: A visit to Street.
• 11 May 2012 - Lordleaze Hotel Dinner. Will's Women: a nun and a tart. CHG
• 11 May 2012 - AGM & Second World War Reminiscences. N&DLHS
• 11 May 2012 - Stogursey Music - Jubilee Concert
• 12 May 2012 - SANHS: AGM & 'Sedgemoor Bricks and Tiles'
• 14 & 15 May 2012 - Open Mills. SHS
• 15 May 2012 - Annual General Meeting. WSVHS
• 16 May 2012 - The Workhouse. NCS
• 16 May 2012 - The career of Sir Benjamin Hammett (1726-1800). SVBRG
• 20 May 2012 - Cleeve Abbey. C&DAS
• 20 May 2012 - SANHS: Birds of the Wetlands - Booming Bitterns and Hobbies (NH).
• 23 May 2012 - The buildings of Somerset and South Petherton, why they look like they do. SPLHG
• 24 May 2012 - Cambria Farm Excavations (prehistoric & Roman). Somerton HS
• 26 May 2012 - Study Day on Elizabeth I. NsubHLHS
• 26 May 2012 - SANHS: Historic Buildings of Stogursey.(HB)
• 30 May 2012 - SANHS Marketing and Membership WG Meeting
• 30 May 2012 - Kingston Mills, Bradford-on-Avon & the Holburne Museum, Bath. FSforLS
• 09 June 2012 - SANHS: Dragonflies and Butterflies of the Priddy Pools (NH).

The full calendar of meetings of SANHS and Associated Societies can be seen by clicking here. If you find the month at a time format difficult to read, you can click on the Agenda button in the top-right-hand corner of the calendar for a chronological listing.

Our current membership stands at 437 individuals (1 junior). One of our most challenging tasks during the next few years is to reverse this trend by increasing membership while reducing its average age.

Visit www.sanhs.org/join us/ or www.sanhs.org/shop/ or call 01823 272429 for more information.

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