Evening Heritage Talk: 'In Search of the Catuvellauni'
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As part of the Festival, we are pleased to announce a series of free evening talks at the Chester House Estate in July.
The talks will highlight amazing discoveries from recent archaeological excavations and new research taking place in Northamptonshire.
Monday 11th July - ‘In Search of the Catuvellauni – Putting Late Iron Age and Roman Northamptonshire into perspective’ by Michael J Curtis (Chair of Northamptonshire Archaeological Society).
The Catuvellauni are a tribe that feature in the late Iron Age political landscape of southern Britain and whilst their origins are far from clear, the tribe quickly seems to have grown and prospered under Roman rule. With the tribal centre focussed on Verulamium, its territory covered Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, along with parts of Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Middlesex and north-east Surrey.
Drawing on the results of research and investigation, much of which has featured in the journals of the Northamptonshire Archaeological Society over the years, this presentation seeks to present a perspective on late Iron Age and Roman Northamptonshire in the context of the Catuvellaunian expansion north of St Albans and offers some thoughts on how the area might have been organised and administered in the Roman period.
Michael J Curtis is the Chair of the Northamptonshire Archaeological Society. He is also a tutor for Northamptonshire Adult Learning for their archaeology and Roman courses and a PhD student at the University of Leicester studying late 1st century BC to 3rd century AD ports and harbours on Crete.
All talks are FREE but require booking. To read the abstract for a talk and to book a place please click the relevant link above.
All talks start at 7pm in the Threshing Barn at the Chester House Estate and are scheduled to take 45 minutes to an hour with time for questions.
If attending an evening talk, please park in the Lime Avenue Car Park. The bar will be open for refreshments before and after the talk.
Book tickets for Monday 11th July below, talk by Michael J Curtis.
The talks will highlight amazing discoveries from recent archaeological excavations and new research taking place in Northamptonshire.
Monday 11th July - ‘In Search of the Catuvellauni – Putting Late Iron Age and Roman Northamptonshire into perspective’ by Michael J Curtis (Chair of Northamptonshire Archaeological Society).
The Catuvellauni are a tribe that feature in the late Iron Age political landscape of southern Britain and whilst their origins are far from clear, the tribe quickly seems to have grown and prospered under Roman rule. With the tribal centre focussed on Verulamium, its territory covered Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, along with parts of Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Middlesex and north-east Surrey.
Drawing on the results of research and investigation, much of which has featured in the journals of the Northamptonshire Archaeological Society over the years, this presentation seeks to present a perspective on late Iron Age and Roman Northamptonshire in the context of the Catuvellaunian expansion north of St Albans and offers some thoughts on how the area might have been organised and administered in the Roman period.
Michael J Curtis is the Chair of the Northamptonshire Archaeological Society. He is also a tutor for Northamptonshire Adult Learning for their archaeology and Roman courses and a PhD student at the University of Leicester studying late 1st century BC to 3rd century AD ports and harbours on Crete.
All talks are FREE but require booking. To read the abstract for a talk and to book a place please click the relevant link above.
All talks start at 7pm in the Threshing Barn at the Chester House Estate and are scheduled to take 45 minutes to an hour with time for questions.
If attending an evening talk, please park in the Lime Avenue Car Park. The bar will be open for refreshments before and after the talk.
Book tickets for Monday 11th July below, talk by Michael J Curtis.