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Newsletter 006 September 1970 – HADAS Newsletter Archive

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We are now well into autumn, which means that our monthly lectures are starting again. but for our more energetic members, there are still some digs in the next few weeks.

Lectures

During the months October to April inclusive, the Society will meet in the Reading Room at the Central Library, Hendon, NW4 at 8:15 p.m. on the first Tuesday of these months. So far, the following lectures have been arranged: –

October 6th Miss Honeybourne on the BATTE OF BARNET

November 3rd Mr. Rutherford Davis on DESERTED MEDIEVAL VILLAGES of HERTFORDSHIRE

December 1st Mr Sammes on MALTA

January 5th Mr. Dickson on GREENWICH TUDOR PALACE

February 2nd Mr. Day on FOSSIL MAN

We do hope that you will keep these dates earmarked for the Society, Notification of each lecture will be sent out about a week in advance with a brief summary of the the lecture, if this is possible.

Excavation news and Field Work

Brent Lodge, Nether Street, Finchley – In August, HADAS carried out a resistivity survey in the Lodge grounds. Our interest in this site is not in the foundations of the Lodge (demolished 1962), but in the remains of an earlier house. The readings revealed no features on the area surveyed. However, a trial trench is to be dug in the allotments adjoining Cedar Court on the north-eastern edge of the area; old maps suggest that this is the most likely location of the house. This trial dig will take place on October 3rd/4th. If you would like to know more about this dig, the Secretary will help you.

Wrotham Park – The Society applied to the owner of Wrotham Park for permission to meter inside the Park boundaries. This has been recently suggested as a possible site for the mortuary chapel built by Edward IV near the graves of some of the men killed at the Battle of Barnet. If permission is given, the meter survey will take place on October 11th and on succeeding weekends of that month. Anyone who wishes to help should get in touch with the Secretary or Mr. Sammes.

Manor House, East End Road, Finchley – During August, a resistivity survey was also made in the grounds behind the Manor House to locate the position of the moat. The survey in this area has been completed and the remains of part of the moat have been discovered; readings also indicate a causeway across it.

Milestones and Boundary Posts

Mr. Sammes would be pleased to hear from any member who has come across these.

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Do you care about Historic Buildings?

This is the title of a paperback just published by the GLC. The booklet is full of photographs and sketches of old buildings in the Greater London area. At 10/-, it is very good value and is a record of many buildings which could be demolished.

From our correspondent at the Battle of Barnet

Our man at the battlefront reports that the Quincentenary Exhibition of this event will take place at the Council Chamber, Wood Street, Barnet. The Exhibition will be opened by Mr. Richard Baker on Easter Saturday, 10th April. The Exhibition closes on April 30th.

Some of the main attractions are a diorama of the battle; an exhibit on the 15th century treatment of wounds; the shields and banners of the participants in the battle. The designing and construction of the latter are being carried out by volunteers from Hampstead Garden Suburb Institute and local WIs.

The Exhibition organisers would also like some voluntary help at the event. Our Society has promised on behalf of members to do all we can. If you are prepared to help in the setting-up – April 1st-9th,; or the stewarding – April 10th-30th; or dismantling – May 1st-4th, please contact the Secretary, if possible before October 6th. Of course it is too early to give precise dates, but perhaps you can indicate how much time you can spare and how often.

One Wheelbarrow = 6 books

What a ridiculous statement, you may well say, but it is true. With 6 books of Green Shield Stamps, the Secretary can get one wheelbarrow, so if you can spare any GSS, the Treasurer would be delighted to receive them to buy equipment with.

P.S. The Treasurer would like to remind members that subscriptions are due for the year 1970-1971. For your convenience, a form is supplied on the next sheet.

Exhibitions

Exhibition of Celtic Art. This exhibition was staged for the Edinburgh Festival and will be on show at the Hayward Gallery, London from October 14th to November 22nd. This display of our ancestors’ beautiful work includes a bronze Cult Scene from Bohemia, Baldock Firedogs and helmets and swords.

200 Years of Spode Unfortunately, this exhibition, at the Royal Academy, Burlington House, W1, closes on October 4th. All types of Spode ware can be seen, ranging from the earliest of their pottery to that of the present day.

Lectures at the Royal Institution

(21, Albemarle Street, London W1)
25th November: 5.30 p.m. Early Timber Bell Towers by K. W. E. Gravett, M Sc, FSA

Now here’s some news for our younger members. On January 1st, 4th, 6th, 8th, Dr. J. R. Napier will give the annual series of Christmas Lectures for Children. This year’s topic is “Man’s place in Nature’. These lectures are highly amusing and instructive to both children and adults. The lectures are 3.30 p.m. and cost Å“2. For further details, please write to the Secretary.

Newsletter 005 July 1970

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We are now well into autumn, which means that our monthly lectures are starting again. but for our more energetic members, there are still some digs in the next few weeks.

Lectures

During the months October to April inclusive, the Society will meet in the Reading Room at the Central Library, Hendon, NW4 at 8:15 p.m. on the first Tuesday of these months. So far, the following lectures have been arranged: –

October 6th Miss Honeybourne on the BATTE OF BARNET

November 3rd Mr. Rutherford Davis on DESERTED MEDIEVAL VILLAGES of HERTFORDSHIRE

December 1st Mr Sammes on MALTA

January 5th Mr. Dickson on GREENWICH TUDOR PALACE

February 2nd Mr. Day on FOSSIL MAN

We do hope that you will keep these dates earmarked for the Society, Notification of each lecture will be sent out about a week in advance with a brief summary of the the lecture, if this is possible.

Excavation news and Field Work

Brent Lodge, Nether Street, Finchley – In August, HADAS carried out a resistivity survey in the Lodge grounds. Our interest in this site is not in the foundations of the Lodge (demolished 1962), but in the remains of an earlier house. The readings revealed no features on the area surveyed. However, a trial trench is to be dug in the allotments adjoining Cedar Court on the north-eastern edge of the area; old maps suggest that this is the most likely location of the house. This trial dig will take place on October 3rd/4th. If you would like to know more about this dig, the Secretary will help you.

Wrotham Park – The Society applied to the owner of Wrotham Park for permission to meter inside the Park boundaries. This has been recently suggested as a possible site for the mortuary chapel built by Edward IV near the graves of some of the men killed at the Battle of Barnet. If permission is given, the meter survey will take place on October 11th and on succeeding weekends of that month. Anyone who wishes to help should get in touch with the Secretary or Mr. Sammes.

Manor House, East End Road, Finchley – During August, a resistivity survey was also made in the grounds behind the Manor House to locate the position of the moat. The survey in this area has been completed and the remains of part of the moat have been discovered; readings also indicate a causeway across it.

Milestones and Boundary Posts

Mr. Sammes would be pleased to hear from any member who has come across thes

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Do you care about Historic Buildings?

This is the title of a paperback just published by the GLC. The booklet is full of photographs and sketches of old buildings in the Greater London area. At 10/-, it is very good value and is a record of many buildings which could be demolished.

From our correspondent at the Battle of Barnet

Our man at the battlefront reports that the Quincentenary Exhibition of this event will take place at the Council Chamber, Wood Street, Barnet. The Exhibition will be opened by Mr. Richard Baker on Easter Saturday, 10th April. The Exhibition closes on April 30th.

Some of the main attractions are a diorama of the battle; an exhibit on the 15th century treatment of wounds; the shields and banners of the participants in the battle. The designing and construction of the latter are being carried out by volunteers from Hampstead Garden Suburb Institute and local WIs.

The Exhibition organisers would also like some voluntary help at the event. Our Society has promised on behalf of members to do all we can. If you are prepared to help in the setting-up – April 1st-9th,; or the stewarding – April 10th-30th; or dismantling – May 1st-4th, please contact the Secretary, if possible before October 6th. Of course it is too early to give precise dates, but perhaps you can indicate how much time you can spare and how often.

One Wheelbarrow = 6 books

What a ridiculous statement, you may well say, but it is true. With 6 books of Green Shield Stamps, the Secretary can get one wheelbarrow, so if you can spare any GSS, the Treasurer would be delighted to receive them to buy equipment with.

P.S. The Treasurer would like to remind members that subscriptions are due for the year 1970-1971. For your convenience, a form is supplied on the next sheet.

Exhibitions

Exhibition of Celtic Art. This exhibition was staged for the Edinburgh Festival and will be on show at the Hayward Gallery, London from October 14th to November 22nd. This display of our ancestors’ beautiful work includes a bronze Cult Scene from Bohemia, Baldock Firedogs and helmets and swords.

200 Years of Spode Unfortunately, this exhibition, at the Royal Academy, Burlington House, W1, closes on October 4th. All types of Spode ware can be seen, ranging from the earliest of their pottery to that of the present day.

Lectures at the Royal Institution

(21, Albemarle Street, London W1)

25th November: 5.30 p.m. Early Timber Bell Towers by K. W. E. Gravett, M Sc, FSA

Now here’s some news for our younger members. On January 1st, 4th, 6th, 8th, Dr. J. R. Napier will give the annual series of Christmas Lectures for Children. This year’s topic is “Man’s place in Nature’. These lectures are highly amusing and instructive to both children and adults. The lectures are 3.30 p.m. and cost Å“2. For further details, please write to the Secretary.

Newsletter 005 July 1970 – HADAS Newsletter Archive

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Issue No. 5, it is difficult to know which of the many items should get pride of place, however, here goes : –

Dates for your diary

Outing. The last outing of the season will be on Saturday September 19th to Burghley House, Stamford, Lincs. This house was built by William Cecil, 1st Lord Burghley about 1556. It has been the home of the Cecils and Exeters for over 400 years. Please make a special effort to come since it is expected that this is the last outing which Miss D. P. Hill will be running for the Society.

Field Work and possible Trial Dig – Aug 8-9 & 15-16th A resistivity survey of the site of BRENT LODGE, Nether Street, Finchley is to be carried out on Saturday & Sunday August 8th-9th. This site has a documented history going back to 1448. It is hoped that traces of buildings earlier than the recent ones may be found by some means.

This is an opportunity to learn about resistivity surveying. It should be noted that only a limited number can work at any one time. Work starts at 10 a.m. on both days, no cafe near to hand! Further details from Mrs. B. G. Green or Mr. Sammes.

Manor House, Finchley It is proposed to carry out a similar exercise on the following weekend in the Convent grounds. For this reason, it will be necessary to restrict numbers. At the same time, it is hoped to put a trial trench across the edge of what may have been a moat. This latter is not in the grounds of the convent but in that of Finchley Cricket Club, opposite. Further details from Mrs. Green or Miss J. Digby.

Lecture The first lecture of the winter season will be on Tuesday, October 6th at the Central Library at 8.15 p.m. It will be on the Battle of Barnet, and will be given by Miss N. B. Honeybourne, MA FSA. It was due to HADAS initiative that a committee was formed about a year ago to plan the Quincentenary celebrations of the Battle in April next year.

It is hoped that members will play a big part in arranging and staffing the exhibition of relics of the Battle to be held in the Council Chambers, Wood Street, Barnet from April 10th-30th 1971. Miss Honeybourne’s lecture will undoubtedly give potential helpers a good background of information.

Another HADAS Exhibit

The Society has accepted an invitation to stage an exhibit on its work at the annual Horticultural show at the Methodist Hall, The Burroughs, on September 12th. We hope to illustrate : –

(a) Material from the digs at Church End, Copt Hall Fields and Tenterden.

(b) Industrial Archaeology – the exhibit used at the GLIAS AGM will be on show.

(c) Roman Hendon. Squadron Leader Rideal has kindly agreed to lend the urn found in Sunny Gardens Road. This will be its first public showing. Members of the Society saw it at one of our winter meetings. We are also trying to borrow some Brockley Hill material for the occasion.

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(d) Clay Tobacco Pipes as a number of them have been sent to the Society from various parts of the Borough, for study, we are working on a special exhibit. It is hoped to include an actual demonstration of pipe moulding. Any members who have found clay pipes (especially bowls), in the Borough, should inform the Secretary (Mrs. B. Grafton Green), giving details of the find-spot and if the pipes can be lent for exhibition.

(e) Chance finds. It is hoped to include a section on chance finds in the Borough, in the hope of encouraging the public to report interesting finds.

All members are invited to participate in the work connected with this exhibition. If you would like to help now with the early research, or with arranging and mounting the exhibits; or if you can spare a short time to act as steward between 1.30 p.m. and 6 p.m. on September 12th, please let the Secretary know. If not, PLEASE give the Society your support by coming along and seeing the exhibition, which opens to the public at 3.15 p.m. on September 12th.

Hendon Roman Road

The report of the various digs carried out by the Society in 1967-8 on the postulated line of Road No. 167 will be published in the December 1970 issue of the transactions of the L.M.A.S.. It is very detailed and of considerable local interest. The report will be available separately. Members wishing to obtain a copy or copies should write to Brian Robertson. It is expected that the report which is about 25 pages long and is illustrated, will cost about 7 or 8 shillings.

Autumn WEA Course

Fourteen members indicated their interest in the suggested WEA lectures this autumn (see last Newsletter). Ideas suggested for the main theme of the lectures were varied, but the majority was clearly interested in the beginnings of Middle Eastern civilisation – Western Asia, the Aegean and Egypt. The WEA were delighted with the response of HADAS members, and booked the Central Library for Thursdays, the most popular evening. Then alas, the snags appeared. WEA could not find a Middle Eastern lecturer of University standard. Instead the suggested a course to be taken by Mrs. Margaret Roxan – an excellent lecturer – on the Romans in the west, covering Roman sites in Germany, Gaul, Spain, Britain and North Africa. It then transpired that Mrs. Roxan could do only Wednesday evenings. The WEA found that on Wednesdays, the Central Library was fully booked. So now at last, the details of the course are clear, and here they are :-

At Hendon Technical College, (about 50 yards from Central Library) starting on Wednesday 7th October, for ten Wednesday evenings before Christmas and 12 after, from 7.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. for a fee of Å“2 (because it is a double course, nit the one-term job we first suggested) there will be a course of lectures, lavishly illustrated by slides and given by Mrs. Margaret Roxan on “The Romans in the West”. Middle Eastern parallels will be discussed and the lectures will include many sites that members who holiday on the continent will already know.

We hope that all those who originally expressed interest will enrol, and will enjoy the course. Also that any other members and friends will join. And for those who feel disappointed that the course is nit devoted to Middle Eastern archaeology, we are told that Hendon’s interest in this subject has been clearly brought to the notice of the extra-Mural Department of London University; and that they will do their damnedest as soon as possible to meet the demand.

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Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society

This Society held its first AGM at the Institute of Archaeology on July 4th. After 15 months of existence, it was able to report a membership of 135, plus 8 affiliated institutional members, and a balance in hand of Å“40 (mainly the result of sales of the booklet “Industrial Monuments of Greater London”). In his report on the year’s activity, Hon. Sec. Paul Carter particularly mentioned the recording work done in Barnet during the last 9 months by HADAS.

Some interesting industrial archaeology exhibits were on show in the vestibule, on such subjects as the work of the London Underground Railway Society; the industrial monuments of the gas industry (the recording of which, with the change-over to North Sea gas, become particularly important); the recording of windmills around London; and the use of applied lettering in street names, inscriptions, plaques, etc. HADAS, the only local society represented, put on an exhibit that had been admirably planned right down to the last drawing pin by Edward Sammes, who was largely responsible for executing it. He was helped by Philippa Bernard (who provided beautifully-lettered captions) and Jeremy Clynes, Rolf Hanson and William Morris, who assisted on the research side. The material for this exhibit will be retained for use at other exhibitions in which HADAS is asked to participate.

The AGM closed with a talk by L. T. C. Rolt and a film on Brunel’s Great Eastern – most appropriate on the very day when another of Brunel’s great iron ships, the Great Britain, came home up the Avon to Bristol after her epic voyage from the Falklands.

Situations Vacant

The Research committee would be pleased to hear from anyone interested in locating the Buildings on the Boroughs’ list of scheduled buildings and plotting them on a map. Several people could work together on this project.

Vacancy No. 2. An editor for this Newsletter is required. At present, this is being done in turn by members of the Committee.

If you can help in either of these, please contact the Secretary.

Stamp Collectors Corner

RAF Hullavington Museum Cover No. 14 To commemorate the 6th World Aerobatic Championships, which are being held in this country for the first time, RAF Hullavington is sponsoring a Museum cover. It will depict the Siskin aircraft and franked with the Alcock and Brown commemorative stamp. This will be postmarked with a special BFPO 1117 handstamp on July 13th 1970, the opening day of the championships. All covers will be flown aerobatically in a British Team aircraft and will be suitably cacheted. Covers fully serviced 5/- each can be ordered from: Squadron Leader J. F. Harris, RAF Hullavington. P.O. and cheques payable to PSI RAF Hullavington. All profits will be donated to the RAF Museum Appeal Fund.

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Glass in London

An exhibition to show the part that glass has played in the life of London is at the London Museum, Kensington Palace W8 until 31st August. A souvenir booklet is on sale

Paintings at Kenwood

The GLC is staging an exhibition of paintings by George Lambert (1700-1765), at Kenwood until 31st August. Weekdays 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sundays 2-7 p.m.

Dickens Centenary

There is an exhibition at Dickens House, 48 Doughty Street, Bloomsbury, open until 12th September. The British Museum has a show until Sept. 13th and at the V & A Museum till Sept. 20th.

Stop Press

It is hoped to organise a resistivity survey later in the season in the Cedars Close area. Further deatils later, contact Rolf Hanson.

Archive Notes

L.M.A.S. is now more commonly known as LAMAS, the London & Middlesex Archaeological Society.

Newsletter 003 March 1970 – HADAS Newsletter Archive

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Lectures

The lecture on March 3rd was on coins in Archaeological Research, and our members heard a fascinating and very instructional survey on the subject. AS further lecture by Mr. G. Smookler on the Roman coinage of Britain would be welcome if we can persuade him to oblige. The final lecture this winter (APRIL 14th – NOT the usual first Tuesday of the month) will be of special interest to all members who are active researchers in the district. It will be by the recently appointed Borough of Barnet Archivist, Mrs Anthea Hiscock, who will tell about the sources available for research in the Borough. We are apt to forget that excavation, though the most spectacular, is not the only means of research open to us. The older members of the Society can do much valuable work in studying the literary records. For example, the documents in the Westminster Abbey archives relating to the Manor of Hendon have never been fully explored. Mrs Hiscock has already told us that she is much looking forward to the opportunity of meeting members of the Society, a sentiment we are sure members will appreciate.

OUTINGS. Summer 1970. All on Saturdays

March 21st. BRIGHTON Arrangements have already been notified but a note should be made that the coach will stop at Preston Manor on the way in, all the other places of special interest being within easy walking distance of each other. In addition to those already mentioned, you are reminded that the famous antique shops in the ‘Lanes’, the Aquarium and its adjoining museum of veteran cars are all close to the ‘Pavilion’. The Hove Museum is also worth a visit, if time permits.

April 25th. It was hoped to visit Ightham Mote, but we have not been able to obtain a special opening for a Saturday. Instead, we shall visit The Friars at Aylesford, and after lunch the battlemented Elizabethan and 18th century manor house of Boughton Monchelsea, four and a half miles south of Maidstone.

May 30th. On this date, it is hoped that we shall be able to visit SILCHESTER and READING Museum. Most of the discoveries of the Roman city of Silchester are housed at Reading Museum.

July 4th. Arrangements have not been finalised, but it is planned to visit Ragley Hall, 8 miles west of Stratford-upon-Avon. This is a stately mansion of the 17th century and 18th century with very fine furniture, pictures and porcelain. The grounds are exceptionally attractive.

September 19th. This again has not been finalised, but it is proposed to visit Burghley House near Stamford, Lincs, although the house is actually on Northants. This great mansion is the Elizabethan rival of Hatfield, full of splendid paintings and furniture. Those who wish to do some ‘homework’ on the places we are visiting are reminded that the Hendon Central Reference Library is particularly well equipped with topographical works from the Victoria County Histories to the familiar Ward Lock Guides.

AGM

The Annual General Meeting will be held on Tuesday May 5th. 8:15 p.m. Central Library NW4

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Saturday May 30th.

The Hampstead Garden Suburb Institute plans an open afternoon lecture/meeting on Conservation, as a contribution to European Conservation Year. Discussions will be initiated by prominent speakers specialising in some aspect of conservation – a wise ranging subject that takes in everything from preserving ancient monuments to controlling pollution in inland waters and oceans. It is hoped that in the ensuing discussion, ideas for positive local action will be put forward. It is unfortunate that the date of this meeting coincides with our visit to Silchester. Those who are unable to go on the outing and would like to attend the afternoon conference should let Miss Hill know so that she can inform the Institute regarding numbers.

Hendon Church Farm Museum

The exhibition on the Middlesex Regiment closes on March 22nd, and the following one on Hendon Records in the 18th century should be of particular interest. It runs from March 28th to April 26th.

Industrial Archaeology

We have mentioned in earlier newsletters the work that the members of the Society have been doing on the recording archhaeology monuments in Barnet. As a result of this, the Society has been asked to mount a small exhibit at one of their functions during the coming months. Offers of help in arranging this exhibit will be warmly welcomed, particularly from any member with skill in the art of lettering.

Historic Buildings

The Historic Buildings Preservation Committee of the London & Middlesex Archaeological Society (to which ours is affiliated) has asked for names of any of our members with wither a special knowledge of, or any informed interest in, historic buildings in this area. They are making a register of people spread throughout London and Middlesex, who can provide prompt advice about the historic or architectural quality or even just the present state of local buildings, should these be threatened by development schemes or in other ways. Would any members of the Society who are interested in the preservation of historic buildings, and who would like to know of this scheme please get in touch with Mrs. Grafton Green, who will be glad to give further information.

Emergency Dig

For Hemel Hempstead Excavation Society. Volunteers are needed from Tuesday 31st March to Sunday 19th April for the Royal Palace at Kings Langley, Herts. Apply to D. S. Neal Esq Ministry of Public Buildings and Works

The site is a quarter of a mile south of Kings Langley. It is an excellent opportunity to dig on a medieval site.

Subscriptions

April is upon us and once again you annual subscription is due. The ever increasing cost of postage, printing and stationery has caused us to increase the amount of the subscription for the first time since the Society was formed in 1961. It is now 15/- (10/- for those under 18). I am sure you will continue to support the Society and should be most grateful if you will send your subscription to the Hon Treasurer

Archive Notes

Archive Images

Archive Notes

Only substantial reference found to Hemel Hempstead Excavation Society is a page about , which mentions Kings Langley excavations.

See Also

Industrial archaeology in newsletters 001 and 002

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Newsletter 002 January 1970 – HADAS Newsletter Archive

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Newsletter 002 January 1970

Newsletter

Our second Newsletter reaches you slightly later than weintended. Various complications, not least of them the ‘flu epidemic,have delayed it. First, here is news of

Forthcoming Meetings

8.15pm Central Library, The Burroughs, N.W.4

Feb 3rd Archaeology and the Camera – a Survey Our vice-Chairman, Edward Sammes,will show slides of field monuments visited and digs undertaken invarious parts of the country. He calls it “a quick run-through fromprehistory to the 19th Century.”

March 3rd. Coins in Archaeology. The first time thesociety has had a talk on this topic, which so often provides importantdating evidence. The lecturer will be coin expert G. Smookler.

April 14th. A talk by Mrs. Hiscock, Archivist to the London Borough of Barnet, on the Borough’s local history collections.This will provide an opportunity for members to meet our new Archivist,appointed last year to the Central Library. It will also give thosemembers interested in doing research in the Borough a chance to askquestions and get first-hand information about local sources.

Please note that this lecture will be held, at the library’srequest, on the second Tuesday of the month instead of our customaryfirst Tuesday.

Outings Summer 1970

Dates:- March 21st, April 25th, May 30th, July 4th, September 19th.

Places we shall visit:- Regency Pavilion, Brighton, The Vyne,Basingstone and Calleva Museum, Sichester, nr. Reading, Ignthem Mote ? and Lullingstone Castle, Ragley Hall, Alchester, Nr. Stratford upon Avon, Burghley House, Stamford. Loncs.

Reports

Since the last Newsletter we have heard lectures on Roman potterykilns at Brauhing (by Bernard Barr) and prehistoric water engineeringat Pezohora, on the Gulf of Corinth (by R.A. Tomlinson). We also saw a90-minute colour film, “Palaces of a Queen”, which took us round theart treasures and history of Windsor, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court,Buckingham Palace, Frogmore and Holyrood House.

Mr. Barr’s adaptation of Quadrant excavation (commonly used forBronze Age round Barrows) to an almost Ploughed out Roman pottery kilnwas both interesting and instructive. The horizonal-draught kiln foundat Baughing must, I think, be the most northerly of this rare typeknown in Britain. Digging at Braughing, a very varied site, continuesin 1970 and Mr. Barr indicated thate volunteers from our Society wouldbe welcome when he tackles a possible early Roman fort this comingsummer.

Mr. Tomlinson’s discussion of the complex of water raisingmachinery and storage tanks at the otherwise waterless temple of Heraat Perachora was an eye-opener on the unsuspected engineering skill of5/3rd century B.C. Greece. His excellent slides of sunny digging daysby the blue Aegean were a splendid tonic for a colde January Evening inN.W.4.

Notes from the Archivist

Palaeolithic finds from High Lodge

The proposed exhibition at the British Museum of Palaeolithic findsfrom High Lodge, mentioned in the last Newsletter, was abandoned; weunderstand it is now unlikely to take place. Apologies to members whomade a special trip to see it.

Graeco-Roman galleries

We hope they may have looked instead at the new Graeco-Romangalleries, opened a few months ago. There are worth a special visit.Largely arranged by designer of the Fishbourne museum, they run fromthe Bronze Age of Greece to the end of the Roman imperial era. Apartfrom the intrinsic interest of the objects, display methods andlighting are outstanding. See specially the frieze from the temple ofBassae, on display now for the first time since the war.

Church Farm Museum

Nearer home, the present exhibition at Church Farm Museum –paintings and drawing of the district in the 20th century – has much tointerest any local historian and any Hendon resident with a taste fornostalgia. It continues until February 15th.

Nonsuch

Nonsuch: An exhibition on this “lost” Tudor Palace is at the LondonMuseum till Arpil 19th. This is Henry VIII’s “pleasure dome betweenEwell and Epsom” which showed an astonished 16th century England thenew Renaissance techniques of gilded slate and plaster work. Memberswill recall enjoying a lecture about Nonsuch in the eary days of thisSociety. A short article appears in the Winter, 1969, issue of London Archaeologist.

Hendon’s Roman Burial Urn

Members may remember seeing, at a meeting some years ago, the late1st/early 2nd century cremation urn found in the garden of a house inSunny Gardens, N.W.4. The owner had kindly lent it to our Society forstudy. The urn has now been published in Trans. London & Middlesex Archaeological SocietyVol. 22. Pt.2 (1969). An offprint of this article has been deposited inthe Local History Collection at Central Library, Hendon, N.W.4.

Battle of Barnet

The quincentenary of this battle,climax of the Wars of the Roses, falls on April 14th 1971. Our Societyfelt the event ought not to go unnoticed, and so convened a meeting ofother local societies to discuss possible joint celebrations. A smallcommittee has now been formed, and various preliminary arrangements arein hand, including those for borrowing armour and weapons of theperiod, maps, insignia and documents to form the basis of anexhibition.

The Newsletter will report development from time to time, andlater members of our Society who wish to do so will have ampleopportunity to help both with the preperations for and the running ofthis event.

Industrial Archaeology

In November our Society was asked by the Greater London Industrial Archaeological Society to undertake the recording of the industrial monuments of the London Borough of Barnet, and we agreed to do so.

The object is to provide not only a record which will be housedat the Central Library, N.W.4., but a duplicate record to go into thenational industrial archaeological archives. Eleven members are alreadyworking on various projects, ranging from a group of four recording theMill Hill gasworks at Bittacy Hill before it goes out of production toa member who has undertaken a survey of the remains of old forges inthe Borough.

In so large an area there is work for any number of volunteers.It can be done as and when you are able to fit it in; and the varietyof subject is great, from old post-boxes (can anyone send details ofany Victorian post-boxes still in use in Barnet?) to a major projectsuch as recording the remaining (and fast vanishing) farm buildings ofnorth-west Middlesex. If you have any time to spare, and would like tohelp, your offer will be most warmly appreciated – please ring BrigidGrafton Green (number given).

Archive Notes

Archive Notes

In the Outings Summer 1970 section the name Ignthem Mote. It was difficult to read the page and not certain this is correct. Please take a look at and check.
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Newsletter 004 June 1970 – HADAS Newsletter Archive

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New Committee

At the start of a new season, members may like to have a note of the; Officers and Committee for 1970/71, who were elected at the A.G.M. on May 5th

Chairman : Mr. B. A. Jarman, Hon.Sec: Mrs. Grafton Green, Vice-Chairman & Archivist: Mr. E. Sammes, Hon Treas: Mrs. G. M. Isaaman, Committee: Miss J. Digby, Mr. J. de F. Enderby, Miss E. Dowling, Mr. G. E. J. Evans, Miss J. Dowling, Mr. R. Hansen, Mrs. Worby, Mr. A. Kirkwood, Mr. J. Clynes, Mr. E. E. Wookey, Mr. G. Cole

In order to spread the Committee’s work as much as possible, four sub-committees have now been appointed: Finance (Chairman Mrs. Isaaman) Research (Chairman Mr Sammes) Programme (Chairman Mr. Jarman) Publicity (Chairman Mr. Wookey)

Outings

We were very sorry that we had to cancel the outing for May 30th, owing to the fact that Blenheim Palace was not open to the public that day. Next outing: Ragley Hall, near Startford on July 4th.

Excavation and Fieldwork

Westhorpe: Surveys had been carried out on this site in Tenterden Grove (TQ235896) in August and November, 1969. At Easter, seven 10 foot square trenches were opened on the basis of the survey results (site supervisor: R. Hansen). Numerous sherds of pottery (including Bellarmine) were found, also roofing tiles, nails and clay pipes, two of which bear the initials R.B. All the finds were resting on a gravel surface, in which was discovered a post hole and small areas of burnt material. One supposition is that the gravel formed a foundation of a yard adjoining a farm building. Part of a trackway was also found, with similar pottery on its surface. On preliminary investigation, the finds suggest a possible 17/18th century date, but they are being studied. A final report will be made later.

Finchley Manor: The L-shaped remains of a moat in the grounds of the Convent of Marie Auxiliatrice, East End Road, (TQ254899) was surveyed by a small team of members under the supervision of Jennifer Digby, with the help of Mr. B. R. Martin, ARICS. It is hoped to do a resistivity survey on the site later this summer. Members will be kept informed so that those who wish may take part.

Tools: In the past, we have borrowed excavation tools from the Borough of Barnet, who have always been most helpful and generous in this respect. We should, however, like to get some capital equipment of our own, which would be particularly useful if an emergency dig arose. A number of tools we want can be bought with Green Shield Stamps. If you have any of these stamps to spare, would you please remember the Society?

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Subscriptions

A reminder from the Hon Treasurer (address already given) that these are due. She will be pleased to receive them at your earliest convenience.

A course for the Autumn

The Society has been asked to co-operate next September in a course on archaeology to be run for the first time at the Central Library, Hendon, by the Workers Educational Association. The course, taken by a university tutor, will consist of 12 2-hour lectures, one a week between September and Christmas. The cost will be Å“1 per head. This course will offer those living in or near Hendon a chance of taking part in a really interesting class right on their own doorstep, and we hope many of you will decide to join. Anyone interested should fill in the form overleaf and post it, as soon as possible, to Mrs. Green.

Exhibit on Industrial Archaeology

Recent newsletters have mentioned the small exhibit which HDAS has been asked to provide at the AGM of the Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society on July 4th next, at 2.30 p.m. at the Institute of Archaeology in Gordon Square.

Now here are the final details. The exhibit will show a background map of the Borough of Barnet, plotted will the milestones of the Borough and with a representative selection of Barnet’s industrial monuments. We shall not include all of them – there are too many – but will concentrate on those on the recording of which members of the Society have worked this year.

Around the map photographs and plans of three of these monuments will be displayed in detail. The three chosen are: the Dollis Valley Viaduct (research: William Morris), Arkley Windmill (Edward Sammes) and Railway Housing in Cricklewood (Rolf Hansen).

The exhibit is being designed by Edward Sammes, who has also taken the photographs; the captions will be the work of Philippa Bernard.

Members of HDAS are warmly invited to attend the AGM; and anyone who would care to help either with the arrangement of the exhibit or in stewarding it on July 4th would be very welcome. Such offers of help should go to Edward Sammes (phone 304-4391 – after 7 p.m.).

Notes and News

Exhibition: have a nautical day and visit an exhibition on The Camera and Sailing Ships at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. At the same time, you can visit the Cutty Sark.

Essex and the sea: This year’s exhibition at Ingatestone Hall is of documents, pictures and ship models – open until 3rd October, 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., 2 p.m.- 4 p.m. daily (except Sundays and Mondays, but including Bank Holidays). A 28-page booklet will be on sale, price 2s.6d. It is also obtainable from County Hall, Chelmsford, but add 6d for posting.

Roman Samian Ware: The Hertfordshire Archaeological Society has republished an informative booklet on this (it first appeared as a chapter in The Archaeology of Roman Britain, by Collingwood & Richmond, 1969). Written by a great Samian expert, B. R. Hartley, MA, FSA, it costs 5s3d.

Archive Notes

  • Westhorpe excavation was referred to in issue 1.
  • The Hertfordshire Archaeological Society Google returns referring to them.
  • B.R.Hartley, author of chapter in The Archaeology of Roman Britain, is currently (October 2004) listed as Reader Emeritus in the School of Classics, University of Leeds

Book Reference

The Archaeology of Roman Britain (amazon.com)

Newsletter 001 October 1969 – HADAS Newsletter Archive

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Newsletter

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This is the first issue of a new venture which we hope in future to send members at about six-weekly intervals. In addition to giving news of the Society’s increasing activities both in field work and research, the newsletter will also provide details of lectures and outings. That is why we have not sent you a programme card this year – we hope you may find the newsletter, with its information about immediately forthcoming events, more helpful as a reminder.

Some of our lecturers make a long journey to Hendon and it is both disappointing to them and your officers if the lectures are not well attended. It was most gratifying to see some sixty seven members at our first lecture this season, so PLEASE do try and attend and bring your friends.

Forthcoming Meetings. The Central Library, The Boroughes, N.W.4

Nov. 4th. Lecture by Bernard Barr, “Unusual Romano/British Pottery Kilns at Much Hadham, Herts.”
Dec. 2nd. Film Show, “Palaces of A Queen”.
Jan. 6th. R.A. Tomlinson, M.A., University of Birmingham, on “Recent Excavations at Perachora”.

Industrial Archaeology

Interest in this subject grows almost daily. Earlier this year the Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society was formed. H.D.A.S. has now affiliated to it, and our members will be welcome at any of the G.L.I.A.S. functions.

Last month a survey of the industrial monuments of Greater London was published, in the form of an 8s,6d. gazetteer of the London boroughs. There are 8 entries under the Borough of Barnet, and the Research Committee has already started investigations into the possibility of the Society recording these eight. Members who would be interested in helping with this work are asked to get in touch with me. If you have any suggestions to make about industrial monuments in the Borough which should be recorded, please also let me know.

B.Grafton Green.

From the Archivist

The British Museum is staging an exhibition of finds from the prehistoric site of High Lodge, near Brandon, which will show the earliest prehistory of East Anglia. Opens on NOVEMBER 1st and continues until January 1970. Note this exhibition did not take place

Hendon Emigrant

The Rev. Denis Bayley’s book – “A Londoner in Rupert’s Land” – is now published. It deals with Thomas Bunn who emigrated to serve with the Hudson Bay Company in 1797. Both Thomas Bunn and the author are related to the NICHOLL and BAYLEY families of Hendon; and the Bunn family gave their name to Bunn’s Lane. ASK FOR IT AT YOUR NEAREST BOROUGH LIBRARY.

Excavation at Church End, Hendon, 1969

The two week ends spent digging trial trenches in the rear of Peacock’s yard and Mount Pleasant showed a different pattern of occupation compared wit the Paddock just across the road. Examination of the pottery so far suggests there was no occupation before the late 19th century. This means we do not need to carrry out a major excavation in this area. However as areas nearer the Church become vacant, they too, must be investigated before re-development. Thanks are due to all who helped to plan and carry out this dig.

E.SAMMES.

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From the Archivist cont…

Excavation of Westhorpe

The Manor House of Hendon, known as Hendon Place House, and later Tenterden Hall, was demolished in 1934 to make way for the present Cedars Close. The house was rebuilt in the early 18th Century, but there is little known about the original buildings and their position. Resistivity surveying and excavations at Westhorpe, Tenderden Grove, revealed a bed of gavel approximately 9 ins. below the surface. Resting on this were found sherds of 17th Century pottery and clay stems, together with an 18th century pipe bowl. At Westwyn, Tenterden Grove, remains of a brick wall were discovered 8ins. below the surface; whether or not this is part of the pre-18th century building is being investigated.

It is planned to carry out further resistivity surveying at Westwyn to trace the exact position of the wall, and at Westhorpe to investigate further the gravel feature:

WESTWYN. (TQ235789701) SATURDAY NOVEMBER 1st. 10AM
WESTHORPE (TQ23548962) SUNDAY NOVEMBER 2nd. 10AM

THIS WILL OF COURSE DEPEND ON THE WEATHER ON BOTH DAYS.

Rolf Hansen

Proposed excavations at Woodlands, Golders Green

Trollope and Colls, Ltd., the owners of 1, Woodlands, asked the Society to postpone the August excavations for ‘two or three months’. A definite date has now been requested, and when the final arrangements have been made, a notice will be sent to all members. In October, 1968, the remains of a medieval road were discovered during a week-end dig. It was decided to investigate the site more thoroughly, with a view to establishing a firm date for the road, and perhaps picking up traces of an earlier feature. Documentary research has been completed.

Rolf Hansen

Archive Notes

The images of this very first issue are attached below.
R.A.Tomlinson
http://isbndb.com/d/person/tomlinson_r_a.html (isbndb.com)
A Londoner in Rupert’s land: Thomas Bunn of the Hudson’s Bay Company by Denis Bayley
Publisher: Moore & Tillyer
ISBN: 0902106015
http://isbndb.com/d/book/a_londoner_in_ruperts_land.html (isbndb.com)
Multimap Links for Westwyn and Westhorpe grid references
Westwyn (TQ235789701) (multimap.com)
Westhorpe (TQ23548962) (multimap.com)

External Links

Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society (http://www.glias.org.uk/)

British Museum (http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/)