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Boxford Boars – 2021 Season

Following an interrupted 2020 season, the Boxford Boars are once again back in action with a number of fixtures already planned for the 2021 season. Please take note of the dates below for an opportunity to see the Boars in action. Supporters and passing walkers are all welcome!

Boxford Boars in action

Scheduled Dates

23rd May – Boxford Boars v Chaddleworth (Away)

30th May – Boxford Boars v Chieveley (Away)

6th June – Boxford Boars v Ardington (Home) 

13th June – Boxford Boars v Swinbrook (Away)

20th June – Boxford Boars v Chieveley (Home)

11th July – Boxford Boars v Inkpen (Away)

6th August –  Boxford Boars v Peasemore (Away)

29th August – Boxford Boars v West Berkshire Wanderers (Home)

5th September – Boxford Boars v Peasemore (Home)

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Boxford Boars 2020 Season

The Boxford Boars are once again back in action with a number of fixtures already planned for the 2020 season. Please take note of the dates below for an opportunity to see the Boars in action.

Boxford Boars

Scheduled Dates

10th May – Boxford Boars v Chieveley (Away)

16th May – Boxford Boars v Inkpen (Home)

14th June – Boxford Boars v Ardington (Away) 

21st June – Boxford Boars v Chaddleworth (Home)

8th July – Boxford Boars v Ardington (Away) (evening T20 bash) 

6th September – Boxford Boars v Peasemore (Away)

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Playground getting exciting upgrade

New Chin up bars are currently being installed at the Boxford Village Hall Recreation Ground. This essential work will boast a 3 tier bar allowing different heights and abilities to enjoy playing on this apparatus. The completion of the work is due to be towards early April, where we hope many will come and enjoy the new chin up bars.

The plans for the chin up bars below.

We are very happy to also tell you the zip-line seat is being replaced and will be fully functional around the same time. All in time for spring!

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Anthony Beeson Lecture on Boxford’s Roman Mosaic

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We are very fortunate that one of the leading UK iconographers, Anthony Beeson, will be giving a talk at Boxford Village Hall on Saturday 3rd March at 7pm entitled The Triumph of Bellerophon. The Boxford Mosaic, a unique survival from Roman Britain. Places will be limited on a first come first served basis because we anticipate a full house. So please reply to joy@appleton.uk.net  This mosaic was discovered last summer by locals supported by local archaeological groups, overseen by professionals and has been described by experts as the most important discovery of a Roman mosaic in Britain in the last 50 years.

 

For those of you who might be interested in the background of our speaker, who after his visit to the site last year conducted an incredibly thorough research looking at mosaics throughout the Roman world.
Anthony Beeson was born in 1948 into a well established Brighton family. Having worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art Library, he moved to Bristol in 1972 to become Fine Art Librarian, and over the following thirty-seven years developed the Bristol Art Library into one of the finest British public collections of art books. He is a noted classical iconographer who has written extensively in academic journals, lectured on Romano-British art and appeared on the television programme Time Team.