Current SIAH news

The SIAH Field Group has a new website  at https://sites.google.com/view/suffolkarchaeologyfieldgroup/home .

Our archive has been enhanced with these four contributions: Melton Gaol records by Val Dudley, an extent of the rented lands of Leiston Abbey 1467 (the entries for Sizewell) by Mark Bailey, the Ipswich tallage (royal tax) of 1228 by Keith Briggs, and a very large Long Melford collection from Lyn Boothman.

Access via quick links on the right.

Wednesday 29^th October 2025 at 10.00 am on Zoom: Kevin Wooldridge, The interesting history of Halesworth cemetery and its people (1855-19).

Saturday 8^th November 2025 at 2.00 pm at Elmswell: Dr Shalona Klazow, Medieval pilgrimages to the chapel shrine of Our Lady of Woolpit.  [+council].

Saturday 22^nd November 2025 at 2.00 pm on Zoom: Ten-minute Talks.

Saturday 13^th December 2025 2.00 pm at Elmswell: Paul Drury, The medieval floor tiles of East Anglia.

Saturday 10^th January 2026 at 2.00 pm at Elmswell: Denise Parkinson, Trist’s Flood: an eyewitness account of the 1953 great sea flood in rural Suffolk [+council].

Wednesday 21^st January 2026 at 10.00 am on Zoom: Dr Francis Young, Troublesome Friars: The Franciscans in and out of Bury St Edmunds 1233-1538.

Saturday 14^th February 2026 at 2.00 pm at Elmswell: Dr Tristan Carter, Freston: Excavating Suffolk’s oldest sacred landscape.

Saturday 28^th February 2026 at 2.00 pm on Zoom: Dr Nick Amor, In the footsteps of David Dymond - researching and writing history.

Saturday 14^th March 2026 at 2.00 pm at Elmswell, Dr M J Walker, A Hard and Grievous Battle; the siege of Haughley castle and the battle of Fornham in 1173.