The Avebury to Norwich ‘Thunder Run’

4 September 2010 - 5 September 2010.

This tour commemorated the 'great coup d'etat' of 1935 led by Grahame Clark, Christopher Hawkes, Charles Phillips and others, that transformed the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia into the Prehistoric Society. Stuart Piggott famously said of reaching the critical meeting in Norwich, 'I drove from Avebury (rather fast, in Keiller's MG Midget) to cast my vote in favour'. Travelling rather more sedately and staying overnight in Cambridge, this event retraced Piggott's journey and stopped off at selected prehistoric sites en route to reflect on 75 years of prehistoric research.

See PAST November 2010 for an account of that memorable weekend.