Saturday 8th March – Sun and Fire: Celebrating Prehistoric Shropshire

A day school looking at the prehistory of Shropshire, at The Cut Visitor Centre, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury and Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery.

9:30am – 1.00pm at The Cut Conference Centre. The morning session will comprise an Introduction and 4 talks with a midway break for refreshments and will conclude with a half hour for discussion (see Agenda, below). 9.30am at The Cut Visitor Centre, Shropshire Wildlife Trust, 193 Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, SY2 6AH

1.00pm – 2.30pm Lunch (not provided, please make your own arrangements)

2.30pm – 6.00pm at the Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery. The afternoon will be spent at Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery exploring the galleries and hearing about the planned British Museum Partnership Gallery, closing with a wine reception. 2.30pm at Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, The Square, Shrewsbury SY1 1LH

The Day School fee of £16.96 includes the admission fee for the Sun and Fire exhibition and the wine reception, and booking will be via Eventbrite Booking is now open via EventBrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sun-and-fire-celebrating-prehistoric-shropshire-tickets-1126679672229?aff=oddtdtcreator. If you are unable to pay online then please send a cheque for £15 per person, payable to the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society to the Hon Treasurer, Mary McKenzie, Bratton Villa, Heighways Lane, All Stretton, Church Stretton, SY6 6HN.

This event is being held in conjunction with the West Midlands Archaeological Forum.

Agenda

  • 09:30 Doors open
  • 09:45 Introduction – Bill Britnell
  • 10:00 ‘Far in a western brookland’: changing perspectives on Shropshire’s prehistory – Andy Wigley
  • 10:30 People and Places in Bronze Age Shropshire – Dave Mullin
  • 11.00 Refreshment break
  • 11:15 Finding the Iron Age People of the Welsh Borderlands – Toby Driver
  • 11:45 Gathering light: The Late Bronze Age Shropshire Marches gold bulla in context – Neil Wilkin
  • 12:15 – 12:45 Discussion – Bill Britnell
  • 13:00 – 14:30 Lunch (not provided)
  • 14:30 – 16:00 Access to Sun and Fire Exhibition and Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery
  • 16:00 – 18:00 Presentation on Reimagining Shrewsbury Museum, followed by wine reception