Wednesday 3rd December. Our speaker this month is Steve Hewitt who used to run the Geology Department at Wigan Technical College. He also taught Archaeology to ‘O’ level standard there. His talk therefore is not surprisingly entitled ‘The Geology of Archaeology’. Bound to be a great talk.
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Hi. Where and what time is the meeting please?
Great memories of Steve Hewitt teaching me A Level Geology at Wigan College in 1989. Unfortunately, I wasn’t clever enough to continue into the 2nd year and ended up joining the Army!
Hi my names David allonby and my main hobbie is metal detecting believe me when I. Say its a strange kind off hobbie I realy havant found eneything of much value but I just love hunt of just watching the fetus and noferus meter go and the start the rush of the dig a
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. Thanks for listening David A