Upcoming Events calendar
To sign up to any of our events please Contact us with your name and the event you will be attending.
The calendar above shows scheduled events from the Worthing Archaeological Society and associated local organisations. Click event on calendar for further information. To filter the type of the events shown, use the drop-down arrow on the top-right of the calendar. N.B. dates, times and locations of events not organised by WAS should be confirmed with the organizers.
The WAS Lecture Programme for 2024 is available and can be downloaded as a printable pdf
Please note, lectures could change subject to unforeseen issues.
Please note, lectures could change subject to unforeseen issues.
Next 'WAS' events
For lectures, members have free entry and visitors are asked to make a donation of £4 to the society.
For excavations, a day membership can be purchased for £5.
For excavations, a day membership can be purchased for £5.
15 June
2024 |
Come and Meet Us at Worthing Museum and Art Gallery
Saturday 15th June 10.30am – 3pm We celebrated our Centenary in 2022 – 100 years of looking at local Archaeology. This all started in 1924, mainly, with digging at the Prehistoric Flint Mines North of the town, but, in recent times, we have also looked at Roman Villas, Medieval Farmsteads, Medieval Pottery kilns and the EPIC site at Sompting. We organize excavations, talks, study days and other events and welcome beginners and experts alike. We have over 100 members from all walks of life. No experience is necessary to join our society, and we are always happy to see new members at events and excavations! We can provide on-site training at our digs, so you can learn new skills from our more experienced members. Come and meet us – and handle some of our amazing Finds from local excavations and further afield. There will be prehistoric flint tools from Palaeolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age times, Roman pottery and much more on display. How many times have you been able to handle a Palaeolithic axe, dating back thousands of years? See the tiny blocks of tesserae the Romans used to make mosaic floors at the Walberton Villa and the different types of pottery the Romans used for cooking as well as their best Samian tableware. |
8 October
2024 |
Lecture: The Story of Highdown Hill
Presented by James Sainsbury Archaeologist and Curator of Archaeology at Worthing Museum and Art Gallery James will deliver a lecture on the fascinating history of Highdown Hill. From Bronze Age enclosure and Iron Age fort through to Roman residence and Anglo-Saxon cemetery, this talk will take an in-depth look at one of Worthing's most famous hills. New and exciting research will be discussed, including future plans for further study that could challenge the established history of the site forever. |
12 November
2024 |
Con Ainsworth Memorial Lecture: Coast at Work; Continuity and Change
Presented by Dr Geoffrey Mead Associate Tutor Sussex University and Sussex Landscape expert Geoffrey is passionate about the Sussex landscape, with a fantastic local knowledge of its geography and evolution over millions of years. 'The coast at work' looks at the variety and connectivity of many aspects of coastal employment along the Sussex shoreline from fishing and boat building, to hotels and holiday camps; the talk looks at aspects of the working coast past and present. |
10 December
2024 |
Lecture: Rooted in History, Branching into the Future: The Story of the Nation’s Forests
Presented by Dr Lawrence Shaw Archaeologist, Lead Historic Environment Advisor Forestry England The nation’s forests are home to some of the best archaeological sites, historic buildings and designed landscapes found in England. Evidence of how humans have shaped these places can be found frozen in time, hidden beneath the tree canopy. The unique nature of forestry, when compared to other land uses, means that our historic record has the potential to be preserved to a much higher degree, with tens of thousands of known sites, and more than 850 protected monuments, buildings and parks and gardens found throughout our forests. How the Forestry Commission developed, how we acquired land and how this has been managed over the last one hundred years, means that Forestry England now oversees a palimpsest of landscape histories, ranging from the Palaeolithic through to the Second World War, as well as our own histories. This lecture will touch on just some of the incredible archaeological and historical narratives that can be found within the Nation’s Forest and how Forestry England has influenced these. |
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