(Q1269)

Surrey Archaeological Society

Birch was the Honorary Local Secretary for Wallington (British English)

1925

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Members List

Curator

1927

Birch is noted as the curator of the joint Wallington and Carshalton Museum. (English)

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held position (free text)

Commandant (English)

Voluntary Aid Detachment

specific role

Commandant of V. A. D. Hospital, Filey (English)

instance of

war work

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College Hall Old Students Association Report 1917-18 (English)

College Hall Old Students Association Annual Reports

served on

committee

Archaeological Survey of Surrey

1924

Birch was a member of the East Surrey Sub-Committee of the Archaeological Survey of Surrey (English)

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exhibited at

meeting

Beddington, Carshalton, and Wallington Archaeological Society

item exhibited (free text)

September 1923^Gregorian

Birch displayed artefacts from her excavations and the local area at her home Loraine House as part of the Society's monthly meeting. (English)

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Local Relics. Sutton & Epsom Advertiser 13 September 1923, p 6 (English)

spoke at

meeting

Beddington, Carshalton, and Wallington Archaeological Society

February 1923^Gregorian

title of paper

[Recent Excavations at Bunker's Fields] (English)

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periodical

Congress of Archaeological Societies Earthworks Committee

The Sutton Advertiser and Surrey County Reporter, 16 Feb 1923, p 1 (English)

corresponded with

18 September 1921^Gregorian

An index of postal payments for Congress of Archaeological Societies correspondence indicates that the Earthworks Committee wrote to Birch about an earthwork at Wallington and a Circular. (British English)

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Congress of Archaeological Societies archive

Congress of Archaeological Societies Earthworks Committee

CAS 004/01 (formerly MS 990/4/1) Congress of Archaeological Societies Accounts for Correspondence book (British English)

1923

sourcing circumstances

circa

An index of postal payments for Congress of Archaeological Societies correspondence indicates that the Earthworks Committee wrote to Birch about the Earthworks Committee report and a Roman road. (British English)

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Congress of Archaeological Societies archive

CAS 004/01 (formerly MS 990/4/1) Congress of Archaeological Societies Accounts for Correspondence book (British English)

donor to

British Museum

described at URL

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG53105

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collections held at

Birch Memorial Museum

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Beryl Palmier, A History of the Beddington, Carshalton &Wallington ArchaeologicalSociety (Carshalton & District History & Archaeology SocietyOccasional Paper 2, 2010) (English)

A Cottage Museum. The Childrens Newspaper, 18 January 1930, p 4. (English)

director of archaeological fieldwork

periodical

Excavations at Wallington

start time

1921

end time

1923

Discovered section of a Roman road. Neolithic pot-boilers and medieval glazed ware found, along with (English)

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Congress of Archaeological Societies Earthworks Committee Reports

Bunkers Field

1923

Eric Gardner's letter to the Congress of Archaeological Societies Earthworks Committee dated 8 November 1923 reporting on Mrs Birch's work takes exception with her methods and describes them as more collection than archaeology. (English)

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CAS 002/7 (formerly MS 990/2/7) Letters to Earthworks Committee 1900-1920s (English)

Congress of Archaeological Societies archive

member of excavation during archaeological fieldwork

Excavation at Cheam

specific role

"assistance with excavation and piecing" (English)

1923

Identified the site of an unknown, but large and important, camp, which formerly existed between Sutton and Carshalton. Found neolithic implements, a number of weapons (bronze), and Saxon interments. The ditch of Stag Field camp discovered when excavating the foundations of the hospital of the Metropolitan Asylums Board at Carshalton-on-the-Hill. (English)

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Congress of Archaeological Societies Earthworks Committee Reports

date of birth

21 May 1877^Gregorian

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Sandys Foster, The pedigrees of Crewdson of Crook, Whitwell of Kendal, Pease of Hutton and Low Cross (1890) (English)

date of death

1929

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described at URL

http://cadhas.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Occ-2-CADHAS.pdf

had child in

1910-07-14
(July 14th, 1910)

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was married in (PIT value)

Robert Seymour Benson, Photographic pedigree of the descendants of Isaac and Rachel Wilson (1912) (English)

22 December 1904^Gregorian

spouse

Spouse not in wikibase

name

John Kenneth Beaufoy Birch, R. N. (English)

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Congress of Archaeological Societies Earthworks Committee Reports

Visitation of England and Wales Vol 15 (English)

recorded in

1921

1923

1922

Birch was noted for her excavations the remains of a domestic site near the Wandle at Wallington, Surrey and for other explorations in Carshalton, Surrey (British English)

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