The Archaeological Potential of Secondary Contexts

Aggregates Archaeology Frameworks (AAF) meeting
4 April 2003

The Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund-sponsored Aggregates Archaeology Frameworks (AAF) meeting was held in the Southampton Oceanography Centre (SOC), University of Southampton on Friday April 4th, 2003. The meeting presented initial work from a range of projects based in southern England, exploring the archaeological investigation, management and protection of both the terrestrial and marine aggregates resources. This had not only provided an excellent forum for the work being undertaken through the ALSF, but also discussed the current state of the relationship between archaeology and the aggregates industy and how this may be improved.

Present at the meeting were representatives of the marine and terrestrial aggregates industry, the staff of ALSF-funded projects, and representatives from English Heritage.

Programme
9.00 Coffee & Welcome
9.15 B Kerr (English Heritage) The Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund
9.30 Dr R Hosfield (Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton) The Archaeological Potential of Secondary Contexts
9.55 Dr J Dix (Department of Archaeology/School of Ocean & Earth Sciences, University of Southampton) A Re-assessment of the Archaeological Potential of Continental Shelves
10.20 Dr F Wenban-Smith (Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton) The Stopes Palaeolithic Project
10.45 Dr M Bates (Department of Archaeology, University of Wales, Lampeter) & Dr F Wenban-Smith (Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton) Palaeolithic Archaeology of the Sussex/Hampshire Coastal Corridor
11.10 Coffee
11.30 Dr G Momber (Southampton Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton) Archaeological and palaeoenvironmental investigations of the Holocene drowned landscape of the West Solent
11.55 Dr S Gupta, Dr J Collier, J Dickinson, J Pye, A Palmer-Felgate (Imperial College London) Reconstructing submerged landscapes of the palaeo-Arun river system using high-resolution geophysical imaging techniques
12.20 Discussion
12.45 Lunch
13.45 Dr J Dix (Department of Archaeology/School of Ocean & Earth Sciences, University of Southampton) High Resolution Sonar for the Archaeological Investigation of Marine Aggregate Deposits
14.10 Wessex Archaeology (Dr A Firth) Wrecks on the Seabed; Artefacts from the Sea; England's Shipping
15.10 Open Discussion & Coffee
16.00 Close

For further details contact Dr Robert Hosfield (r.hosfield@rdg.ac.uk) or Dr Justin Dix (jkd@mercury.soc.soton.ac.uk)

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