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The Friends of Wortley Villa
The Friends organisation was set up when the excavation ended to maintain
contact between a group of interested diggers and supporters. The Friends
meet annually for a dinner in May at Nibley House. News about members will
be added here - to supply news, send it to the
webmaster
or to enquiries@Wortley.org.uk.
Photographs from the dig and recent dinners are posted on the
photo gallery page.
Although the dig has ended, work is still continuing on some of the related research and if anyone is interested in helping David and Vicky to complete this, I am sure they would welcome an email or call.
(Photograph: The Annual Dinner at North Nibley.)
January 2010
The dinner will be held at the usual venue on 15th May 2010. Sadly, this will be the last dinner as funds are running out to subsidise the speakers. Any Friends interested in attending should contact Vicky.
David Wilson will give a final speech to wrap up the project titled Mounds and Moats, Bones and Stones.
February 2009
Once again, the dinner was held at North Nibley. The speaker was Dr Mike Allen, an Environmental Archaeologist with the Wessex Archaeological Trust. He did some work for us at Wortley including a magnetic susceptibility test on the car park field (see Interim Reports 5, 8 and 9).
May 2008
The annual meeting of Friends was held at North Nibley when some twenty or more attended a very sociable round table dinner at North Nibley. After the dinner, some early video was shown by Brian Johnson titled "What we did for the Romans: by the class of 82" covering work from 1990 to 1993. Brian's video can be viewed here. It might take a while to start and you need Flash Player installed:
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