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10/11/2025

Société Jersiaise Geology Section - Presentation Talk - Sea Level Change - A talk by Nicky Mansell

🌊 Explore Jersey’s Changing Coastline! 🌊

Join the Société Jersiaise Geology Section for an intriguing talk on Sea Level Change and its impact on Jersey’s coastal landscapes.

🗓 Date: 12th November 2025
🕢 Time: 7:30 PM
📍 Location: Members Room

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/societe-jersiaise-geology-section-presentation-talk-sea-level-change-tickets-1869962782019?aff=oddtdtcreator

For more information about this talk and all things geology, please email: [email protected]

19/10/2025

❄️ Join us for our Winter Lunchtime Talks 2025! ❄️

This much-loved series returns with a fascinating programme of talks. All sessions take place in the Société Jersiaise Members’ Room from 1:10pm to 1:50pm, with free entry, and tea and coffee served from 12:45pm. Come along, bring a friend, and enjoy learning something new!

To guarantee a spot, please book your tickets through our events page below:
👉https://societe.je/events/

📩For further information please email: [email protected]

23/09/2025

The beautiful Autumn equinox sunrise from inside La Hougue Bie this morning 🍁

15/08/2025

Excavation Round Up!

Excavation of a small Iron Age farmstead, St Lawrence.

After three weeks of excavation in St Lawrence, the Field Archaeology Department of the Société Jersiaise invites you to a public talk presenting the results of the dig.

📍 When? Friday 22 August.
🕒 Time? 3:30pm (1 hour).
📌 Where? Members’ Room, Société Jersiaise, Pier Road.

Field Archaeologist Hervé Duval-Gatignol will share the story of this summer’s excavation of a small Iron Age farm, revealing what the team discovered about life in Jersey over 2,000 years ago. There will be an opportunity to ask questions about the site, the finds, and the techniques used.

Seating is limited, so please book your spot on the link below:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/excavation-round-up-tickets-1577961909549?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=1

12/08/2025

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06/08/2025

Archaeologists are digging up an ordinary potato field in St Lawrence as they search for a 2,000-year-old Iron Age farm.
https://www.itv.com/watch/news/archaeologists-search-for-a-2000-year-old-iron-age-farm-in-a-jersey-potato-field/70lh2rx

25/07/2025

Prehistoric Star Gazing and Archaeology Evening🪐🌜✨
Saturday July 26th 2025 at La Hougue Bie - Gates open at 7.30pm!

Council for British Archaeology Festival 2025🎉

Join us for an evening of discovery and see the same stars ✨that our ancient ancestors gazed upon from the 6000 years old Neolithic passage grave site at La Hougue Bie.

Neil Mahrer, Jersey Heritage Conservator and an active astronomer, will be there with telescopes to explain what stars and planets that ancient peoples would have seen over the course of their year. All ages welcome!

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We will also be opening up our Archaeology Rooms to show some of the recent work that we have been doing - Hot drinks, cakes and biscuits will be available!

Gates Open at 7.30pm a talk will soon follow by Neil Mahrer ✨🌓🪐
For tickets, please select the link below:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/prehistoric-star-gazing-and-archaeology-evening-tickets-1483795886439?aff=oddtdtcreator

22/07/2025

16/07/2025

Meet the Collections - Archaeology Treasures 🔎 Open Day!
Saturday 26th July 2025 - 9.30am-1pm

CBA Festival of Archaeology 2025 🎉 Join Olga Finch, Curator of Archaeology & The Collections Team at Jersey Heritage.
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Come and ‘Meet the Collections’ and see some of the archaeology treasures and recent finds that are not usually on display at one of Jersey Heritage’s sites. Many of the older items in the Collections originate from the Société Jersiaise and which were collected over the Société’s 150-year history and which are now in the safe keeping of Jersey Heritage. The Museum Conservation Lab will also be open to allow you to see some recent conservation projects.

Jersey Heritage’s collections team will be selecting some of their favourite objects to show you and will be on hand to tell you about these objects, where they came from and what they can tell us about our Island’s history. The Museum Conservation Lab will also be open allowing visitors to see some conservation work in practice.

Sir Francis Cook Gallery will be open to the public from 9.30am - 1pm.

For tickets, please select below: 🎫🎫

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/meet-the-collections-archaeology-treasures-open-day-930-1pm-tickets-1483745977159?aff=oddtdtcreator

14/07/2025

Visit the Hougue de Vinde 2025 dig tomorrow as part of the CBA Festival of Archaeology - I'm happy to support this fab project with 3D modelling and GNSS survey 🛰

Discover the Hougue de Vinde - Tuesday 15th July 2025
(JICAS Summer School Excavation)🔎⛏ Free tour!

Council for British Archaeology Festival 2025🎉
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Join Dr Sean Dettman, Helen Dawson & Dr Hervé Duval- Gatignol on a tour of Hougue de Vinde.

La Hougue de Vinde is a circular monument, sometimes describe as a tumulus, and bearing similarities to the cist-in-circle series dated from the Late Neolithic to the Bronze Age (around 2850 to 2250 BCE). This site has recently been studied through an archaeological evaluation directed by Dr Helen Dawson (Research Fellow, institute of Prehistory, Early History and Medieval Archaeology, University of Tuebingen) and Dr Hervé Duval-Gatignol (Société Jersiaise Field Archaeologist) in the course of JICAS’s Archaeological Summer School 2023, 2024 and 2025.

The project aims a better understanding of the site and included a restoration work to preserve the monument for the future generations.

For tickets, please select:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/discover-the-hougue-de-vinde-jicas-summer-school-excavation-tickets-1483538917839?aff=oddtdtcreator