Lectures by Professor Tim Darvill "Merlin's MagicCircles: Stonehenge and the
use of the Preseli Bluestones"
You are invited to celebrate the 2007-8 Tercentenary of the Society of
Antiquaries of London by attending one of the Tercentenary Lectures in May
this year to be held in Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Auckland and Dunedin.
Professor Tim Darvill of Bournemouth University is being flown out at the
expense of the Society of Antiquaries to give a lecture tour as the
Australasian component of the Tercentenary celebrations, to speak on the
topic "Merlin's Magic Circles: Stonehenge and the Use of the Preseli
Bluestones". The organizers of the lecture tour are Prof. Matthew Spriggs
(chair), Dr Harry Allen, Prof. Patrick Greene, Prof. Tim Murray, Prof. Dan
Potts, and Prof. Glenn Summerhayes.
AUCKLAND, NZ
Thursday 22 May - TERCENTENARY LECTURE, "MERLIN'S MAGIC CIRCLES: STONEHENGE
AND THE USE OF THE PRESELI BLUESTONES",6.30pm, at Lecture Theatre 84 of the
Business School, University of Auckland. For details contact Harry Allen:
h.allen@auckland.ac.nz or phone 09-3737599 xtn 88570.
DUNEDIN, NZ
Friday 23 May - TERCENTENARY LECTURE, "MERLIN'S MAGIC CIRCLES: STONEHENGE
AND THE USE OF THE PRESELI BLUESTONES", 5.10pm, at Archway 1, University of
Otago. For details contact Glenn Summerhayes:
glenn.summerhayes@stonebow.otago.ac.nz or phone 03-4798399.

Biographical note:
Timothy Darvill is Professor of Archaeology in the School of Conservation
Sciences and Head of the Centre for Archaeology, Anthropology and Heritage
at Bournemouth University, UK. The author of over a dozen books, including
Prehistoric Britain (Routledge. 1998), Prehistoric Britain from the air
(Cambridge University Press. 1996), The Concise Oxford Dictionary of
Archaeology (Oxford University Press. 2002), and Stonehenge: the biography
of a landscape (Tempus, 2006) he has served as Chairman of the Institute of
Field Archaeologists, was a Member of the Council of the National Trust, and
is currently a Vice-President of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
Current research interests focus on archaeological resource management and
the Neolithic of northwest Europe.

Saturday, April 26, 2008