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.)

NEWS

2010

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. 

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2009

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).

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2008

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:

You probably do not have the Flash Player installed for your browser or the video files are misplaced on the server!

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© Wortley Romano-British Villa Excavation 2009 Last amended 22 December 2009