The final Beaminster Museum winter talk of the season is on Tuesday, March 1 at 2.30pm, when Matthew Kirkman will be talking about the Durotrigian to Roman transition in west Dorset, focussing on recent changes in interpretation and understanding of Roman armies besieging Dorset hillforts.
Matthew is the chairman of Beaminster Museum management committee.
Current perceptions of a violent transition with besieged hillforts are being challenged, based on a more impartial review of the evidence and modern science that was not previously available.
Mortimer Wheeler’s view, written in London during the Blitz, and presumably influenced by his experiences at Passchendaele in the First World War, heavily influenced the field until challenged by more recent excavations, starting with the 1995 excavations at Maiden Castle.
Entry to the talk costs £3.
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