FRG Meetings

 
Our meetings - open to all but with preferential rates for members - are held regularly and include one-day events focusing on themes related to the identification and interpretation of small finds. With no regional bias, FRG meetings are made accessible to the widest membership and are held across Britain and Ireland and beyond. Venues have included Dublin, Durham, Edinburgh, the Isle of Man, Lincoln, Liverpool, London, Orkney and Perth; with our most recent gatherings in Plymouth, Devizes and at the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden. Our short trips to museums to view exhibitions have taken us to Paris, Nuremberg, the Netherlands and London and Glasgow.

We co-host meetings with other finds study groups and societies - such as the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology, the Roman Finds Group, the Portable Antiquities Scheme, Instrumentum and the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland - and with professional bodies, in order to widen our network and encourage information exchange. These have proved very popular and productive in the past. We hope to continue these collaborations and welcome suggestions from groups for future joint meetings and conferences.

Details of future (and recent) FRG Meetings will be listed below...
 


Finds Research Group Meeting
Chester

9th–10th May 2026.

Post-Roman finds from the Chester Amphitheatre excavations and beyond

Please join us at the Grosvenor Museum in Chester for what promises to be a great weekend on May 9th–10th. Originally planned around two new exhibitions on discoveries at the nearby Amphitheatre site between 2004 and 2006, the meeting has expanded to include finds from the Welsh Borders and the West. The weekend will consist of talks (full line-up to follow), a chance to take in the exhibitions and a finds viewing on Saturday and, on Sunday, a walking tour of Chester to include the medieval Rows led by Julie Edwards, our host for the weekend, and the Norman church of St. Johns the Baptist.

Confirmed speakers include:
  • Tony Wilmot on the Chester Amphitheatre excavations
  • Julie Edwards on post-Roman finds from the amphitheatre excavations
  • Karla Graham on the conservation and analysis of the amphitheatre metal finds and the ‘owl’
  • Pauline Clarke on Early Medieval finds from the Welsh Borders
  • Dan Garner on the Bunbury Anglo-Saxon oven, with probably the only stratified assemblage of Anglo-Saxon mill/quern stones from Cheshire
  • Jim Glazzard on Viking-age silver working, including techniques used in manufacturing objects and the artisans who made them
Tickets:
ONLY £5.00 for FRG members and £10.00 for non-members.

Booking: Secure your place via Eventbrite
 
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