'Sarsen stones in Wessex': a society of antiquaries project contextualised and renewed

This paper reviews the Society of Antiquaries’ Evolution of the Landscape project, which started in 1974, and the project’s Sarsen Stones in Wessex survey. The survey was an ambitious public archaeology project, involving c 100 volunteers led by Fellows of the Society during the 1970s. Its aims, objectives and outcomes are described. The survey’s unique dataset, produced for the counties of Wiltshire, Hampshire and Dorset, has now been digitised. Drawing on the dataset, the paper situates the Evolution of the Landscape project in the context of later-twentieth century British archaeology. It demonstrates the importance not only of individual Fellows, but also contemporary movements in academic and development-led archaeology, to the direction of the Society’s activities in this formative period for the discipline today, and shows how the Society’s research was engaged with some of archaeology’s most pressing cultural resource management issue

Particular thanks and obligations’: The communications made by women to the society of antiquaries between 1776 and 1837, and their significance

This paper brings together the evidence bearing on the relationship between the Society of Antiquaries and the women who contributed to it during a significant period when archaeology, through the work of such men as Samuel Lysons and Richard Colt Hoare, was beginning to emerge as a distinct field with its own conceptual and technical systems. It takes its departure from the first substantial appearance by a woman in the Society's publications in 1776, and continues until the accession of a female monarch, Victoria, in 1837, a period of just over sixty years. It explores what women did and what reception they received and assesses the significance of this within the wider processes of the development of an understanding of the past and the shaping of gender relationships through the medium of material culture, in a period that saw fundamental changes in many areas of intellectual and social life, including levels of material consumption and the sentiments surrounding consumerism

VI. Observations upon four Mosaic Pavements discovered in the County of Hants; by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart. F.R.S. and S.A. in a Letter to Nicholas Carlisle, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary

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Sir Richard Colt Hoare to Aylmer Bourke Lambert

Note this letter was originally sent to Aylmer Bourke Lambert. Lord Bath [Thomas Thynne, 2nd Marquess of Bath (1765-1837)] to be a "Linnean". A 'Geranium' on sale in Bath for £500

Sir Richard Colt Hoare to Aylmer Bourke Lambert

Note this letter was originally sent to Aylmer Bourke Lambert. Lord Bath [Thomas Thynne, 2nd Marquess of Bath (1765-1837)] to be a "Linnean". A 'Geranium' on sale in Bath for £500