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The society acts as a text publication society, and between 1952 and 1985, its Record Section issued 13 editions of Bristol and Gloucestershire records and related material, all now available via its website. [4] Since 1988 the society has published annually in its Gloucestershire Record Series a volume comprising an edition of some historical ...
Richard John Harrison (born August 1949) is an archaeologist and Professor in the University of Bristol, England. [1] Harrison studied at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and gained his Bachelor's degree in Archaeology and Anthropology from the University of Cambridge in 1970.
She was General Secretary for the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society for 38 years, [3] Assistant Editor of the Bristol Record Society from 1946 and an active member of Bristol civic and conservation societies. [2] 'Miss Ralph' (as she was always known) was a noted scholar, who published many works on Bristol history.
She received an OBE for services to archaeology in 1968, as well as serving on the council of the Society of Antiquaries, as President of the Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club (1936 – 8), [4] and as the first woman president of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (1949).
The Clifton Antiquarian Club is an archaeological society founded in 1884 in Bristol to investigate antiquities in the surrounding areas of western England and southern Wales. The 28 years of research undertaken by the members and associates of the original society fill the first seven volumes of the Proceedings of the Clifton Antiquarian Club ...
There is evidence of settlement in the Bristol area from the palaeolithic era, with 60,000-year-old archaeological finds at Shirehampton and St Annes. [1] Stone tools made from flint, chert, sandstone and quartzite have been found in terraces of the River Avon, most notably in the neighbourhoods of Shirehampton and Pill. [2]
Alan Saville (31 December 1946 – 19 June 2016) was a British archaeologist and museum curator. [1] [2] [3]Saville is best known for his "ground-breaking"' [2] and "meticulous" [1] excavations of the Neolithic Hazleton North long barrow near Hazleton in Gloucestershire, undertaken between 1979 and 1982.
He was a Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, co-founder and contributing editor of Archaeology Worldwide magazine, [4] editor of Military History Matters, [5] a contributing editor of Current Archaeology, [6] and co-director of the Great Arab Revolt Project (in Jordan) and the Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project ...