Below are a list of current notices that might be of interest. Please feel free to announce these notices at your meetings.

 

Banwell Caves Heritage Group.
Work will shortly start to complete the decorative ceiling to the pebble summerhouse. In 2011 we hope to make good progress with the restoration of the osteoicon. We are sorry we have sold out of our illustrated booklets "A short history of Banwell Caves", but a new updated version will be available early in 2011.

The first Public Open Day for Banwell Caves in 2011 will be on Sunday 29th May from 10.30am to 4.30pm.

Private visits can be organised for parties from 12 to 40 people, to complete an application form and for further information visit our website or e-mail David Shaw.

 

English Heritage has announced a new online application form for getting a site listed or scheduled. It replaces the previous set of postal forms and allows applications to be made online. For more information about this news see the English Heritage website. To access the online application forms for new designations click here.

 

A new group has been set up on Facebook for people interested in the history of Weston-super-Mare. If you are a Facebook user and want to take a look at the group, click here.

  

Pip Osborne of CHERT has recently achieved the marvellous result of distinction in Grade 1 Violin and was awarded 140 marks out of a possible 150. What made this so remarkable was the fact that she had never played the instrument until exactly one week before the exam. She was not allowed to look at the set music until then either.

Pip undertook this as a sponsored challenge to raise money for St Margaret's Hospice in Yeovil in memo ry of a neighbour. She raised the amazing sum of £1,300.

 

From May NEAT will now be meeting in a new venue at the new fire station on Pound Lane, Nailsea. The room is a modern meeting room with a PC and facility for Powerpoint shows and showing DVDs. There will be tea and coffee available. Dates for future meetings can be found on the diary page.

 

North Somerset Museum, Weston-super-Mare will be delighted to host 'Treasures from the Earth', a touring archaeology exhibition aimed at raising awareness of and participation in archaeology in the South West particularly amongst local communities. The project is an initiative of the Renaissance Archaeology Group (RAG) and has attracted funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Renaissance in the Regions. The exhibition will run from 18th August 2010-12th November 2010.

I would welcome your involvement and help in making this a really good exhibition. Are you interested in any of the following?

Loaning objects or other items for display in glass ca binets?
A brief description of your current projects for an exhibition panel?
Help with choosing artefacts from the museum stores for display?
Producing artefact labels for display?
Help put up/take down exhibition?
Organising events/activities?
Help with distributing publicity?

If you are interested in taking part, please contact me asap. Thank you.
Jane Hill, Museum Officer, North Somerset Museum, Burlington Street, Weston-super-Mare, BS23 1PR, Tel 01934 621028, to e-mail click here.

 

 

YCCCART cordially invites CANS members to attend their weekly fieldwork sessions on Thursday mornings for training with the new geophysics equipment purchased through Heritage Lottery Fund. For more information contact Chris Short or visit the YCCCART website.

 

 

The diary is looking a little sparse for 2010. If you have an archaeology event you'd like to tell other CANS people about please e-mail the webmaster or use our contact form.

 

Langford local buildings research published
'Every House Tells a Story', a book covering the history of buildings in Langford, has been republished and copies are now available through the Langford History Group website. In addition to this a new volume, 'More Stories from Langford', is also available. Both volumes are charged at £12.50 each. For more details click here.