QRA Field Meeting, The Solent Basin and West Sussex

A joint meeting with the Prehistoric Society

Leaders: Becky Briant, Martin Bates, Rob Hosfield, Francis Wenban-Smith

A registration form for this meeting can be downloaded by clicking the link above.

Please note that all the en suite accommodation has been booked.

The Annual Field Meeting will be based at Southampton University and visit a wide range of sites typifying extra-glacial landscapes in the surrounding regions, which have not been visited by the QRA since 1998 (Sussex) and 1987 (Hampshire and the Isle of Wight).

The field meeting will focus on the following themes:

• Evolution of the extra-glacial coastal / fluvial landscape over multiple cycles of sea-level change
• Dating and nature of the Palaeolithic occupation of the region
• Human use of the landscape during the Holocene

The itinerary for the meeting is as follows:

Saturday 4th April. Introductory evening lecture

Sunday 5th April. The West Sussex coastal plain

Themes: Coastal landscapes, Palaeolithic occupation

Sites: Selsey, Warblington, Boxgrove, Slindon

Coordinator: Martin Bates

Monday 6th April. The Isle of Wight

Themes: Coastal and fluvial landscapes, Palaeolithic occupation

Sites: Priory Bay, Ventnor Late-glacial sequence, St George's Down

Coordinator: Francis Wenban-Smith

Tuesday 7th April. The Solent

Themes: Fluvial and estuarine landscapes, Palaeolithic occupation

Sites: Barton-on-Sea, Lepe (Stone Point interglacial deposits), Tom's Down

Coordinator: Becky Briant

Wednesday 8th April. The New Forest

Theme: Human use of the landscape during the Holocene

Sites: Cranes Moor and Barrow Moor.

Coordinator: Michael Grant

further information:
Becky Briant (b.briant@bbk.ac.uk)
07952 766881

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