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Programme 2025: Key events

Prehistory Research Section events:

2025
December

Saturday 6th December 2025 Christmas Meeting.
In-person talk and guests are welcome.
Tea & coffee available from 11am and the talk starts at 11.15am until 12.30pm.

Venue: St George’s Centre, 60 Great George Street, Leeds, LS1 3DL

Dr Neil Wilkin, Curator of Neolithic and Bronze Age collections at the British Museum, will talk about: ‘Chalk Children: The Folkton and Burton Agnes drum burials in their Neolithic world In 2015, a burial containing three small children and a remarkable set of grave goods was excavated by Allen Archaeology Ltd near Burton Agnes on the Yorkshire Wolds. Of particular note was the decorated chalk ‘drum’, comparable to the well-known Folkton Drums, also buried with a child, discovered 125 years ago. This talk brings together new research and scientific study to explore the national importance of this pair of internationally important and poignant graves. What can they tell us about Neolithic Yorkshire and its place in the emerging artistic and cultural world of Britain and Ireland 5,000 years ago?

Dr Neil Wilkin is curator of the European Neolithic and Bronze Age collections at the British Museum. His most recent major exhibition project was The World of Stonehenge (2022). He is the co-author of the tie-in book The World of Stonehenge (2022) and Grave Goods: Objects and Death in Later Prehistoric Britain (2022)

Any enquiries to: info.prehist@yahs.org.uk info.prehist@yahs.org.uk

Possible Archaeological Events for Your Diary:

  • 18th October: CBA Yorks: Autumn Seminar: Workstation Creative Lounge, Sheffield
  • 3rd November: Neolithic Study Group conference: ‘Kinship in Neolithic Europe’
  • 14th - 16th November: Bronze Age Forum will be held in University College, Dublin

Guest Lectures (open to all) 

Bradford University: School Archaeological and Forensic Science guest lectures series.

Lectures start at 5.30pm - search SAFS guest lecture series on Ticketsource

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Above programme updated 17th October 2025

 

 

YAHS & PRS Craven museum visit

  • Posted On: 23 August 2021

MEMBERS ONLY, PLACES MUST BE BOOKED IN ADVANCE - Contact info.prehist@yahs.org.uk for further information on booking

YAHS and Prehistory Research Section visit to 

Craven Museum, Town Hall, High Street, Skipton, North Yorkshire BD23 1AH 

Thursday 9 September 2021 

The Craven Museum re-opened in June 2021 after a National Heritage Lottery funded redevelopment.  The collections include Shakespeare’s First Folio - one of only four on display in the whole world! They cover geology, archaeology, the history of Craven and many other subjects which are now presented in a handsome new gallery­­. The Archaeology of Craven is given pride of place, with artefacts from the palaeolithic period through to the modern era on display.  Artefacts and finds from Elbolton Cave in Wharfedale and Victoria cave are on view, as well as a glimpse of the rich lithics collections and other artefacts of interest. 

YAHS + Prehistory Research Section members 11.30am – 12.45pm: A brief introductory history of the Craven Museum by a member of staff, followed by a self-guided tour of the collections. 
Prehistory Research Section members only: 2.00pm – 3.30pm - a chance to have a hands-on session with a curator looking in more detail at prehistoric artefacts in their collections.
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