Bath GS - Change of lecture programme

Please note that the Bath Geological Society lecture programme has changed. The previously advertised September lecture will now be given in November and vice versa.
In September Professor Tony Brown and Dr. Laura Basel, University of Southampton will talk about 'New Research on the Pleistocene Geology and Palaeolithic Archaeology of SW England'.

The SW of England is sometimes seen as at the ‘edge of the edge of’ the Palaeolithic world. However, work over the last ten years has increasingly shown this not to be the case. Apart from the well known sites such as Kent’s Cavern and the Mendip caves, open air sites along the river valleys of SW England have, and continue, to produce evidence of a long human record of occupation despite a much lower level of sand and gravel extraction than in SE England, the Midlands or East Anglia. This talk will describe this record with an emphasis on current work in the River Axe in Dorset, along with new techniques which are improving both our recording and dating of these geoarchaeological sites.