Garden Archaeology - The Water Garden at Packwood

This talk is the fourth in our online series exploring current archaeology with a 17th century bias on Tues @ 10 from April 6th.

This exciting new series of talks explores how archaeology helps the garden historian find vital evidence on the ground which then informs future restoration projects and garden management plans. Our distinguished and popular speakers will be reporting on current and on-going archaeology at various sites with a particular interest in the seventeenth century.

You may also like to know that we are running a course on early seventeenth century gardens starting March 18th - for more information look here or contact us.

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This ticket is for this individual session and costs £5, and you may purchase tickets for other individual sessions via the links below, or you may purchase a ticket for the entire course of 5 sessions at a cost of £20 via the link here.

Attendees will be sent a Zoom link 2 days prior to the start of the talk, and a link to the recorded session (available for 1 week) will be sent shortly afterwards.

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Week 1. April 6. Introduction: Part of a series of 5 online lectures, £5 each or all 5 for £20.

Week 2. April 13. Oxfordshire’s Lost Wonders: Part of a series of 5 online lectures, £5 each or all 5 for £20.

Week 3. April 20. Finding Vanished Beningbroughs: Part of a series of 5 online lectures, £5 each or all 5 for £20.

Week 4. April 27. The Water Garden at Packwood: Part of a series of 5 online lectures, £5 each or all 5 for £20.

Week 5. May 4. Seaton Delaval Hall, a Curtain Rises: Part of a series of 5 online lectures, £5 each or all 5 for £20.

Week 4: April 27th - How to dismantle a dam, a programme of investigation and restoration at Packwood House, Warwickshire, and an examination of the English water garden. Stephen

Remedial work to the dam below the Great Pool at Packwood House enabled, over the course of four years, a detailed account to be prepared of the construction and functioning of the dam together with a wider consideration of the part that water played in the early garden there, Documented features included an Elizabethan moated garden, important seventeenth century timber drains and relics of the wild parties from the early twentieth century.

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Stephen Wass is a researcher, about to complete his D. Phil. on the subject of seventeenth-century water gardens. In addition, he works as a commercial archaeologist. In this capacity most of his projects involve historic gardens and he is currently occupied with a series of archaeological investigations connected with the latest programme of restoration at Stowe Landscape Gardens near Buckingham. He is also working to set up a new research programme alongside the Oxfordshire Gardens Trust into the ‘lost’ Tudor and Jacobean gardens in the county.