Current SIAH news

Volume 45, part 4 (2024) of the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History is now out. The contents are as follows, and full abstracts of the articles are available here.

Early Neolithic activity, a Beaker burial and a prehistoric funerary enclosure at Woolpit by Tom Woolhouse

Late Bronze Age settlement and salt production on the Stour estuary: excavations at Stutton Close, Stutton by Matt Brudenell, Lawrence Billington and Nicholas Cox

The Iron Age origins of Sudbury: did prehistoric defences influence the layout and development of Late Anglo-Saxon settlement seen at the Gainsborough’s House Museum excavations?, by Jezz Meredith

Medieval and post-medieval archaeology at Manor Farm, Bawdsey by Andrew A.S. Newton, Lindsay Lloyd-Smith and Liam Podbury

The Ipswich ancestors of Geoffrey Chaucer by Keith Briggs

Hiding in plain sight: the site of the medieval market butchery at Hadleigh by Sue Andrews

Diarmaid MacCulloch, president of the SIAH from 2011 to 2019, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Suffolk. 

https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/24664915.leading-historian-suffolk-awarded-honorary-doctorate/

Wednesday 30^th October at 1000 Zoom: David Wollweber, The Halesworth Witches of 1645

Saturday 9^th November at 1400 Elmswell: Faye Minter, Rendlesham Revealed: Investigating an early East Anglian Royal Centre +council

Wednesday 27^th November at 1000 Zoom: Dr Anne Folan,The Poverty Line: the relationship between health and socio-economic status in Victorian and Edwardian Ipswich

Saturday 14^th December at 1400 Elmswell: Martin Harrison, ENDURING RADIANCE: medieval stained glass in Suffolk

Saturday 11^th January at 1400 Elmswell: Steven Graham, Excavations in Sudbury 2012-2023 +council

Saturday 25^th January at 1400 Zoom: Kathleen Fisher, The burn marks of Lavenham - a systematic recording approach

Saturday 8^th February at 1400 Elmswell: Dr David Boulton, Mapping the Scandinavian place-names of East Anglia: evidence for Viking migration and settlement

Wednesday 19^th February at 1000 Zoom: Dr Nicholas Amor, Labour litigation in the court of common pleas in the fourteenth century

Saturday 8^th March at 1400 Elmswell: Alex McWhirter, Infanticide and insanity – A Suffolk tragedy +council