Fonds
Congress of Archaeological Societies
Catalogue reference: CAS
What’s it about?
This record is about the Congress of Archaeological Societies dating from 1889-1945.
Access information is unavailable
Sorry, information for accessing this record is currently unavailable online. Please try again later.
Full description and record details
-
Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CAS
-
Title (The name of the record)
- Congress of Archaeological Societies
-
Date (When the record was created)
- 1889-1945
-
Description (What the record is about)
-
The Congress of Archaeological Societies (CAS) in union with SA was established after a conference at Burlington House in 1888. The first annual congress was held in 1889; PSA and 'Ass. Sec. SA acted as President and Secretary of the Congress for much of its existence. The Congress was dissolved in 1945 and was superseded by the Council for British Archaeology founded in 1944. See CAS Annual, special and committee reports (1888-1939); see also CAS/003/03 for William Martin's papers on the Congress, 1901-12.
-
Held by (Who holds the record)
- Society of Antiquaries of London
-
Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- SAL/MS/990/1-6
-
Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Congress of Archaeological Societies
-
Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- Four boxes.
-
Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
- Transferred from SAL archives; CAS/002/008 presented by Dr Ralegh Radford, FSA, 1998; CAS/006 presented by the author, 28 March 1913 (covering letter).
-
Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- Society of Antiquaries online catalogue: https://collections.sal.org.uk/cas
-
Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/c1979340-04fa-412f-a4d8-ad52e64f2b62/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at Society of Antiquaries of London
You are currently looking at the fonds: CAS
Congress of Archaeological Societies