ABSTRACT
The Officers of the Society of Antiquaries of London, the Royal Archaeological Institute, the British Archaeological Association, the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies and the Prehistoric Society were approached and they one and all expressed approval of the plan and a welcome for the venture. ‘Tree-ring analysis as an aid to medieval studies,’ written jointly by a meteorologist and an archaeologist. The first Annual Spring Conference of the Society was held at Sheffield from Friday, 28, to Sunday, 30 March, 1958, its theme being The Relationship of Archaeology and History in the Study of the Medieval Period’. The conference opened on the Friday evening with three short talks on aspects of medieval archaeology in the Peak district, Mr. J. Bartlett discussing the Anglian settlement, Mr. Forest Scott the pre-Norman Christian remains and Mr. L. H. Butcher, Cruck Barns.
