The NAS AGM and Public Lecture was held on Tuesday 10th November at The Humfrey Rooms 10 Castilian Terrace, Northampton, NN1 1LD.

The lecture was "Village Origins: Raunds, Furnells Manor and West Cotton" by Andy Chapman (Senior Archaeologist of Northamptonshire Archaeology).  Andy was involved in the excavations in Raunds from 1978 to 1989 and has been responsible for bringing both sites to publication.  He told the story of these excavations and the major contribution they have made to our understanding of late Saxon village origins.