Bridgwater and District Archaeological Society Report 1981
This is the first full Report of the Bridgwater & District Archaeological Society. The Society was formed to investigate and record items of archaeological interest in the Bridgwater area, in the hope that this would throw light on the pattern of human life and activity in our neighbourhood. The Society’s activities have included lecture courses, visits to excavations, the recording and photographing of buildings and objects of historical or archaeological interest, field work and scientific excavation where this has been necessary because of destruction of or damage to sites. Members have worked on cleaning, identifying and classifying finds and most of these objects are now housed in the Admiral Blake Museum, Bridgwater.
This work involves not only observation, recording and interpretation, but also the publication of a Report. Hitherto, the Society has published brief accounts in its duplicated Newsletter, which has only a restricted circulation. This first Report sets out to present a more detailed account of some of the Society”’s work to a wider public.
The Society offers sincere thanks to landowners, Major C.H.Hallett, MBE, MC, Ashford Farm, Cannington, and the Bridgwater Building Society, for permission to work on their land, and to Society members and other volunteers who assisted with digging, survey, washing and sorting finds, drawing and typing and raising funds for publication. Invaluable advice on interpretation of sites and finds has been received from the staff of the Somerset County Museum, Taunton and of the Bristol City Museum. Finally, publication of this Report was made possible by a grant given by the Lloyds Bank Fund for Independent Archaeologists and the Society would like to express its gratitude for this.
This work, to which, in all phases, she was a constant contributor, is dedicated to the memory of Mrs. Freda Richardson, late Secretary of this Society. To work with her was to be not only a colleague, but a friend, and we mourn her as such, and as an invaluable sharer in the work of the Society.
