Our mission:
is to encourage and promote interest in archaeology and history, particularly of the County Palatine of Lancashire. There is a yearly programme of 5 evening talks, plus a members' evening, and visits to sites of interest.
The Fulwood United Reformed Church,
shown on this map.
Meetings begin at 7.45pm
Mrs Mavis Shannon
telephone: Preston (01772) 709187
or email
2010 - 2011 Programme
The programmes for previous years are shown on the
Archive Page
Joining the Society:
A Membership Application Form (which can be printed off), and details of annual fees, are available on this page. As an alternative just come along to one of our evening meetings.
Information about accessing the venue for our meetings by public transport is shown on the map page.
Society news and announcements
The Lancashire Local History Network has a new sub-group - the Fylde History Network - which is intended to provide a liaison and co-ordination function in the activities of the area's local historians. Contact details are on the page.
The Lancshire County Council, with additional external funding, is running a project on the history and culture of the Forest of Bowland AONB.
....Our Chairman, Gaynor Wood, a lecturer in archaeology at UCLAN, has been involved in some experimental archaeology in tile-firing at Norton Priory. Details of the work are here! The results will also be published here as and when the students do the write-up.
....The Bibliography of our President BJN Edwards is now on line here.
Archaeology Research Seminars 2010
UCLAN is delighted to announce another exciting series of research papers. All are free and anyone is welcome to attend. They will be held at 5.00pm in MB219.
4th February 2010:
Wendy Whitby (University of Central Lancashire)
Chumash cache caves: all wrapped up in meaning
11th February 2010:
Professor Richard Bradley (Reading University)
Stages and screens: rethinking Northern British henges
18th February 2010:
TBC
25th February 2010:
Dr Sarah Semple (Durham University)
Gardens of the Gods: plants, landscape and magic in pre-Christian Anglo-Saxon England
4th March 2010:
Dr Colin Richards (Manchester University)
Recent work on Easter Island
The four images below are from our most recent visits. Clicking on an image takes you to the set of photographs ("thumbnail" size) for that visit. Clicking on each thumbnail enlarges the picture. Please note that initially the larger image may appear out of focus - after a few seconds it will clear.
Clicking on the tab "Webmaster's Gallery" at the top of any page takes you to the complete photograph archive.
Dr David Hunt at the gateway arch of St Andrew's Church, Leyland
18th July 2008
The Green Man at Whalley Abbey
21st September 2008
The fort at Vindolanda
7th June 2009
Evening walk at Lytham, guided by Dr A Crosby
3rd July 2009
and World archaeology can be found here:
associated items is on these pages:
