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BERE REGIS HISTORY SOCIETY
POP IN PLACE NEWS

Society Meeting of 27 March
Pop In Performers stage “ Magic of the
We began our March meeting with an Musicals”
explanation of how we record our finds from Field-
Walks or Trenches in the Museum Garden. First a Show tickets are now available at £5 each the shows are
map is drawn showing where the work was on :-
conducted, then the finds are washed then Thursday 27 June at 6pm
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groups of finds are separated and filled in on the Friday 28 June at 7pm
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finds sheet. After this the finds are labelled and
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boxed for future reference. The records were Saturday 29 June at 2pm
shown for a field-walk conducted on 17th March Rehearsals are going well with the stage packed with talented and enthusiastic
and it was pointed out that the last item on the list youngsters. We will be raising money at our production entitled “Magic of the
was a "silver coin". This was a silver groat cut to a Musicals” for the Kingfisher Ward at DCH. This was at the request of Autumn one of
half groat and found on the surface; not by a metal detector. The inscription our young performers, who is very grateful to the hospital as they saved her life.
shows that it was either Henry-IV (1399-1413) or Henry-V (1413-1422).
We journey through the older traditional musicals in Part one with cameos from
Next we looked at a Oklahoma, Mary Poppins and Oliver. In Part two we have songs from Hair Spray ,
of
Front and back views of the 15th century number found Limestone the Greatest Showman, Les Miserables, Sister Act , Bat Out of Hell and Abba. A
pieces
one
in

silver half-groat region alone. We now fantastic mix of well-loved musicals performed by the wonderful Pop In Performers
and raising funds for your local children’s ward.
have hundreds but just
about 20 were shown and
these were all rough apart Dorset Wrecks Evening
from on one side where
they had been smoothed Thank you to everyone who came along to our Dorset Wrecks social evening last
to form part of the floor month it was a very enjoyable evening. Our grateful Thanks to those who did the
surface of a Romano- catering Sue Alexander , Claire Alexander, Alison Lynam and Jo Syrett.
British building. Next Nigel
gave us a detailed look at
his very recent metal-
detecting finds from near
the top of Rye Hill, which
included many bronze
pieces, some dating back to the Mediaeval period and one to about 1300AD.
Helen reviewed research done on the Burial Board book which has a burial
record at Bere between 1841 and 1949 which is a very valuable addition to our
village burial record. A new article for the Bulletin details burials at Bere detailing
records dating back 5,500 years which now total 36,281 burials.
We finished with refreshments from Sue who had cooked some Easter cakes for us
all to sample and from recipes in the Bere Cook Book.
Also a big thank you to Claire Alexander
John Pitfield, Projects Secretary Brown who made David Hart a wonderful
cake to celebrate his 6oth Birthday.

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