This year's seminar coincides with the 1600th anniversary of the departure of the Romans from our shores and concentrates on the turbulent times which followed. How were the people of the Northern March affected and what evidence is there to help us understand this crucial period in development of our area? We are once again extremely fortunate in our range of speakers and we hope to have a very informative and enjoyable day.


Tickets

Tickets (to include coffee/ tea, biscuits and sandwich lunch with Vegetarian options) are obtainable by completing the booking sheet and returning together with payment of £9.50

Our contributors:
Dr Roger White, Academic Director Ironbridge Institute and Senior Lecturer Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity University of Birmingham. Dr White's main research interests lie in the period of transition from the late Roman to the early medieval period, especially in the west of Britain - the late Roman province of Britannia Prima.
Margaret Worthington B.Ed., M. Phil., Independent Archaeologist with a long association with the University of Manchester where her interest in Early Medieval and Landscape History included extensive work on Offa's and Wat's dykes.
Professor Nancy Edwards, Professor of Medieval History, University of Bangor: Professor Edwards has worked extensively on the Early Medieval period in Wales and is currently producing the third volume of her major research study, A Corpus of Early Medieval Inscribed Stones and Stone Sculpture in Wales.
Dr David Mason, now the County Archaeologist for Durham, spent many years investigating Chester's archaeology and was project director of the Heronbridge excavation. He is the author of “Roman Chester: City of the Eagles”
Dr David Stephenson M.A., D.Phil., and Honorary Research Fellow at School of History & Welsh History the University of Bangor is an authority on Welsh Medieval History. He has a particular interest in the northern Welsh March in the 12th and 13th centuries.


Programme
10.15-10.30am -  Arrival, Tea/Coffee and Welcome

10.30-11.15am  Roger White: 'Sustaining the unsustainable:  Wroxeter in the fifth and sixth centuries'

11.15-12.00am   Margaret Worthington: Adventus Saxonum the 'Ruin of Britain'?

12.00-1.00pm   -  Lunch plus displays and/or videos

1.00 -1.45pm  Professor Nancy Edwards: 'Kingdom formation and Christianity in north Wales: the evidence of the early inscribed stones'

1.45-2.30pm  David Mason: 'the End of an Era: Excavations at Heronbridge and the Battle of Chester'

2.30-3.00pm   -  Tea/Coffee

3 .00-3.45 pm  David Stephenson: 'Better late than never': Arthur in the Welsh imagination in the High Middle Ages.

3.50-4.00pm  -  Final Discussion


About OOLAP:

Old Oswestry Landscape and Archaeology Project is a sub-committee of Oswestry and Borders History and Archaeology group and is made up entirely of volunteers. Our first seminar in 2007 was developed as part of a partnership project run by Oswestry Borough Council, with the purpose of revitalising the area around Old Oswestry Hillfort. OOLAP developed from this project with the intention of continuing to raise the profile of Old Oswestry in continuing years. We are now completely independent and self funding.