The next meeting of the Society will be on Tuesday, 20th August, 7.30 pm at ‘Dumaresq Chambers’.The speaker will be Martin Gibbs, Professor of Australian Archaeology,Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences at UNE, whose interests include research projects on aspects of historical and maritime archaeology. His talk is titled Seeing Beneath the Soil: is there a buried Armidale? and is based on describing UNE’s newly acquired geophysical survey instruments, how they work and where to survey.
The August meeting is the AGM, followed by the general meeting. The AGM will be conducted by patron William Oates, all positions will be declared vacant. Please consider taking an active role in the Society. We welcome volunteers and have positions we need to fill: 1) Someone to deal with research enquiries, and 2) a publicity person (or persons).
As usual, the Chambers will be open from about 7pm on the night of the meeting, and we people are welcome to come early to chat, look at resources, or have a cuppa.