Evening Heritage Talk: The Dead of Irchester - Roman Burials on Lime Avenue
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RESCHEDULED DUE TO EXTREME HEAT - WILL BE ON 1ST AUGUST 7PM
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 18th July – ‘The Dead of Irchester: Roman burials on Lime Avenue’ by Chris Chinnock (Museum of London Archaeology)
The Chester House Estate sits right on the edge of the Roman town of Irchester. During the rebuilding of the road access to Chester House in 2014, Lime Avenue was found to cross through a 4th-century Roman cemetery, one of three cemeteries associated with the town. MOLA archaeologists working on the site in 2014 excavated over seventy human burials, as well as other features relating to the Roman town and later landscape.
This talk from a leading MOLA osteologist Chris Chinnock will consider how the site compares to others in the region, and dive deep into the long history of Irchester Roman town. Come along to explore the cemetery and its funerary rites, and find out what fascinating details, hidden in the skeletons themselves, can tell us about the lives of people living and dying here 1700 years ago.
Chris Chinnock is a Reports and Publication Officer and Human Osteologist at Museum of London Archaeology.
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 18th July (7pm)
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 18th July – ‘The Dead of Irchester: Roman burials on Lime Avenue’ by Chris Chinnock (Museum of London Archaeology)
The Chester House Estate sits right on the edge of the Roman town of Irchester. During the rebuilding of the road access to Chester House in 2014, Lime Avenue was found to cross through a 4th-century Roman cemetery, one of three cemeteries associated with the town. MOLA archaeologists working on the site in 2014 excavated over seventy human burials, as well as other features relating to the Roman town and later landscape.
This talk from a leading MOLA osteologist Chris Chinnock will consider how the site compares to others in the region, and dive deep into the long history of Irchester Roman town. Come along to explore the cemetery and its funerary rites, and find out what fascinating details, hidden in the skeletons themselves, can tell us about the lives of people living and dying here 1700 years ago.
Chris Chinnock is a Reports and Publication Officer and Human Osteologist at Museum of London Archaeology.
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 18th July (7pm)