The Mill will be closed for maintenance over the winter period.

 

 

The Museum and Museum Shop current opening hours are: 10.00am-12.30 pm, Monday and Friday and Saturday.

 

Talks, Presentations and Special Events from the Museum:  

 

 Please note that, to be fair to speakers, all talks will commence promptly at the advertised time. You are requested to be seated at least 15 minutes before.

Tickets for each event are available at the door, and will be £5 for non members; £4 for Sturminster Newton Mill and Museum Society members £4 for students and 50p for under 18s.

Where appropriate presenters are encouraged to bring along their books and publications offering them for sale and signing.  There is absolutely no obligation to purchase however.

For advance bookings cheques should be made payable to: Sturminster Newton Museum & Mill Society, and sent,with a SAE, to:

Dave Durkin
Little Acorn
Rolls Mills
Sturminster Newton DT10 2HP

Advance tickets may also be purchased from the museum

For further information please ring 01258 473179. 
e-mail dmjdurkin@aol.com    

 

Date	Speaker	Title	Venue
Wednesday 3rd November 2010	Lilian Ladle MBE	Pompeii; The day a city died.   .	Stour Hall	The Roman city of Pompeii, lies near modern Naples in the Italian Campania region and had survived several minor earthquakes over many years.  However in the autumn of 79AD, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius sent waves of hot gases through the city instantly killing up to 20,000 inhabitants, before covering them with some six metres of volcanic ash. The city lay forgotten until 1599, when it was rediscovered during engineering works to diver the river Sarno, and since then archaeologists have been working to conserve the remains and discover more about the contemporary Roman culture.  With two thirds of the city now excavated the site attracts some 2.6 million tourists a year, and is considerable need of funds to conserve the remains and continue the work. Lilian Ladle MBE, with some graphic imagery, is going to recapture the last days of the city, and the liberal Roman culture, before the calamitous explosion of Vesuvius erased the city for some 1500 years
Wednesday 1st December	Richard McConnell	Prehistory in the Park & Ride   .	Stour Hall	Richard McConnell is Projects Director for Context One Archaeological Services, a successful independent archaeological unit which, operatingfrom Wincanton, carries out a range of archaeological work all over the Wessex region.  In 2007 the company was commissioned by Somerset County Council to undertake an archaeological field evaluation of a site, just east of the M5, which was destined to become a 'park and Ride' car park for Taunton.  Planning Policy Guidance Note 16 places an obligation on developers to consider the archaeolgy before building work can begin, and in this case the precautions were justified.  Richard will present the evidence the archaeologists found for human activity dating from the late Neolithic, through the Bronze and Iron Ages, to the Romano-British, including the remains of one of the largest Iron Age Round Houses ever found in England.  This talk promises to be a fascinating talk, supported by images from the excavation, by a speaker with a passion for archaeology.

  Please note that for navigation purposes the address of The Exchange is:

Old Market Hill
Sturminster Newton, DT10 1QU
Tel: 01258 475137