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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.)
NEWS
2010
May 2010
The annual dinner of the Friends has been held at the usual venue, Nibley House. Sadly, this was the last dinner as funds are running out to subsidise the speakers.
David Wilson gave a final speech to wrap up the project titled Mounds and Moats, Bones and Stones.
The website will be kept alive for a while, probably until some time after the final report is published. Comments and additions will still be welcome.
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).
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:
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