Bucks History Festival: Archaeology of Stowe Gardens
A Temple, a Rotunda, an Arch: New Insights into the Archaeology of Stowe Landscape Gardens talk with professional archaeologist Stephen Wass, who has been working at Stowe to the support the current programme of repair and restoration of the gardens and has examined over a dozen separate locations within the park to clarify a number of important questions about layout and development. In this talk he gives an account of work associated with sites such as the Rotunda, the Doric Arch and statues and most importantly the new discoveries around the site of the Temple of Modern Virtue.
Time: 17:30 BST