Thu 16th February 2012
Rock Detectives: Wiltshire Heritage Museum, Devizes. Thursday, 16 February, Two sessions: 11am to 12.30pm for ages 5 to 7. 1.30pm to 3pm for over 7s. Discover more about rocks and fossils through a variety of activities and find out what it was like to be there. Cost: £5 per workshop for first child, £4 for other children in family. To Book: * Contact 01380 727369 * E-mail wanhs@wiltshireheritage.org.uk http://www.wiltshireheritage.org.uk/events/
Rock Detectives will discover more about rocks and fossils through a variety of activities. The emphasis will be on fun and discovery, providing an ideal environment for family learning if parents want to stay for the activities and join in the fun.
As 'members of the club' each child will receive a Rock Detectives kit bag with badge, hand lens, rock and fossil ID leaflet, pencil, sharpener and notebook ...
Two sessions:
11am to 12.30pm for ages 5 to 7;
1.30pm to 3pm for over 7s.
Siblings can be booked together, but under 8s must be accompanied by an adult.
Booking essential:
* Contact 01380 727369
* E-mail wanhs@wiltshireheritage.org.uk
Cost: £5 per workshop for first child, £4 for other children in family
Sat 17th March 2012
Time: 10:30am - 1:00am
Chalk Links in the North Wessex Downs Saturday 17 March in the Croft Hall, The Croft, Hungerford, RG17 0GY followed by a Guided Walk around Hungerford from 13.30 lasting about one hour to look at landscape, building materials etc. Free event. Anyone welcome.
An opportunity to discover how the chalk has influenced characteristic features of this area including landscape, soils, land use, industry, hydrology & archaeology.
Provisional Programme:
10.00 Registration; teas and coffees
10:30 Welcome and overview
10:45 Chalk - what is it?
Professor Rory Mortimore - world expert on the ‘chalk’
11:20 Chalk mines and ‘holes’
Dr Clive Edmonds, Peter Brett Associates
12:00 Chalk links factsheets
Presentations from local geology groups
Questions and discussion
Display
Including the new ‘factsheets’ about chalk links produced by local groups
Guided walk around Hungerford from 13.30 lasting about one hour to look at landscape, building materials etc.
To book a place or receive more information contact:
Lesley Dunlop
lesley@berksgeoconservation.org.uk
07790 896118
Supported by the North Wessex Downs AONB Sustainable Development Fund, Berkshire Geoconservation Group, Hampshire Important Geological Sites, Oxfordshire Geology Trust and Wiltshire Geology Group
Sat 31st March 2012
Salisbury Cathedral lecture & tour: The Cathedral Rocks: the Earth materials used in the construction of Salisbury Cathedral
It is a Bath Geological Society event, so you can view all the particulars on www.bathgeolsoc.org.uk/field12/index.html