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Records of Buckinghamshire 2009 has just been published
6 June 2009

The packed new issue includes reports of excavations and research across the historic county including on a Neolithic barrow at Dorney, several Iron Age settlements near Milton Keynes, the Icknield Way (did it exist?), a medieval tile kiln near Penn, life in mediaeval Chesham (and a mediaeval squirrel from Creslow), William Lowndes - Buckinghamshire landowner and Secretary to the Treasury, digging up a Victorian workhouse, air photos of First World War practice trenches and finally why in 1908, did the mysterious Mr Safford come all the way from America to secretively dig holes in Ivinghoe Beacon? Any information about him would be welcome!

Festival of British Archaeology
Saturday 18th July 11.00-1600 at the County Museum, Church Street, Aylesbury
6 June 2009

Hands on activities for all ages, meet archaeologists, geologists and Romans. Plenty to do! For a list of events in the county and across the country see www.archaeologyfestival.org.uk

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The George and Dragon, currently closed (left)
The Queen’s Head, where the team enjoyed lunch (right)
Chesham public house survey

Historic Buildings Group update
20 May 2009

The building group projects are now well underway, with some good results in the form of survey drawings, documentation and database information becoming available. One such project is a survey of pub buildings in Chesham, and a summary of this is given below.

A team carried out a pilot project on pub buildings, focusing on Chesham town initially, and drawing on documentary evidence about publicans recorded by a Mr. Wulcko (accessed at the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies).

Having extracted information relating to Chesham pubs and armed with current and historic maps, the team had the unenviable task of locating and visiting extant pub buildings, recording details on a simple form and taking photographs. What hardship!

The exercise proved not only interesting but also quite sad, given the number of pub buildings demolished, used for another purpose or simply closed. Some were in a poor state of repair.

It is unclear at this stage how this project will proceed, given that it will not be possible to carry out such a survey for the whole county. The information from Mr. Wulcko’s notebooks will be made available via a database, and it may be possible to survey some pubs in this way, perhaps by parish and linking in to the Heritage Environment Record available on-line.
 
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