Current Events

CBA London aim to organise various events throughout the year. These will include lectures, workshops, site visits, excavations etc.

What's been happening recently: CBA London visit to the Thames Foreshore: 29 August 2010

CBA London arranged for a guided tour and beachcomb along the River Thames at Strand-on-the-Green. Becky Wallower, CBA London Trustee, met members before the tour, which was led by Lorna Richardson from the Thames Discovery Programme.

Further information about the Thames Discovery Programme and the archaeology of the River Thames is available here

CBA Event at Syon House: 11 July 2010

CBA London arranged a visit for members to excavations being undertaken by Harvey Sheldon and colleagues at Birkbeck University of London at Syon House (see below).

CBA London Trustees Andrew Dismore and Sheila Broomfield met members at the main excavation site in Syon Park. We went on a guided tour of the site by Harvey Sheldon (site director).

More details about the Syon Archaeological Excavation:

Syon, the only Bridgettine Abbey founded in medieval England, was built on Royal lands bordering the Thames in the early fifteenth century. Well endowed, at the time of the Dissolution it was ranked as the tenth wealthiest religious house and the richest nunnery in England. These excavations aim to discover more about the lost church and monastic complex and to investigate the succeeding series of formal gardens, part of the landscape of Syon House, the sixteenth-century aristocratic residence established here in the wake of the Dissolution.