Archaeology Section

The Archaeology Section aims to entertain and inform those who are concerned for the past and its material remains.

We organise an annual conference and a programme of lectures which keep members abreast of developments in archaeology, both within the county and beyond. Field trips are arranged to view current excavations and exhibitions and to visit some of the notable sites and monuments in Hampshire and adjoining counties.

Some of the work undertaken in the county is published in the Field Club's own Proceedings (Hampshire Studies) and Newsletter. If you have any contributions for the Archaeology Section of the Newsletter, please email them to archaeology-newsletter@hantsfieldclub.org.uk.

Current programme - a full listing of all events organised by the different sections of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society.

• Chris Stringer on the “Origins of Man”
• “Epilogue to Silchester” by Mike Fulford.
• Richard Osgood on “Operation Nightingale”

• Visit to Old Basing House earthworks, led by Civil War expert Alan Turton
• Evening visits to the local WARG excavations
• Evening visits to the University of Winchester excavations at Magdalen Hill, Winchester. 

• 2013 Conference: “Technological Innovation in the Past”
• 2014 Conference: “Conflict and Defence”
• 2015 Conference: ‘Turning the Tide: the coming of Cnut’.
• 2016 Conference: 'Advances in Prehistoric Wessex' (link will go to a pdf flier for the event)
• 2017 Conference: 'Secrets of the Dead'

Visiting the WARG excavations at St. Cross

A visit to the excavations at the Magdalen Hill Leper Hospital

Committee Members