Axbridge Archaeological and Local History Society

A Talk by Ian Caskie from the SS Great BritainTrust Brunel’s SS Great Britain is one of the most important historic ships in the world. When she was launched in 1843, she was called ‘the greatest experiment since the Creation’. No one had ever designed so vast a ship, nor had the vision to build it of iron. Brunel fitted her with a 1000 hp steam engine, the most powerful yet used at sea. Perhaps most daring of all, Brunel…

Associated Societies Day at the Rural Life Museum, Glastonbury. Tickets £5 per head to include buffet lunch and refreshments. Please book via SANHS office (01823 272429; office@sanhs.org ).

The talk will be given by Richard Brunning, of the South West Heritage Trust, who was the site director at the excavations at Beckery, which is near Glastonbury in Somerset.   The dig re-investigated the site of a medieval chapel which was first excavated in the 1880s by John Morland and again in the 1960s by Philip Rahtz and has produced the earliest known evidence for monasticism in the British Isles. Radiocarbon dating of bodies in the monastic cemetery has shown that…

Talk by John Page

Behind the Beeping: an introduction to Geophysical Surveying. Liz Caldwell. Trull Memorial Hall, TA3 7ZJ. £3 donation requested. To be followed up by practical training in the summer. Book via SANHS office (01823 272429; office@sanhs.org ).

Frances Neale

Talk entitled "The Axbridge Banners"  by John Page at the Somerset Heritage Centre £3 donation requested. Please book via the SANHS office (01823 272429; office@sanhs.org ).

Talk by James Bond