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Oxford University Department for Continuing Education

Certificate, Diploma and Advanced Diploma in Archaeology

Each is a two year part-time course at first, second and third year undergraduate level. Contact the courses administrator on 01865 270369 or 01865 280154 or email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

websites:

www.conted.ox.ac.uk/certa Certificate

www.conted.ox.ac.uk/dipba Diploma

www.conted.ox.ac.uk/adap Advanced Diploma

There are also weekend courses in archaeology

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And online courses
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University of Glasgow, Department of Adult and Continuing Education Hot

Offers day schools, day and evening open courses, and certificate courses in archaeology, field archaeology, classics and Egyptology. This year: Easter Island, the Vikings, Medieval Castles, Case Studies in Archaeology, Advanced Hieroglyphs, and many more.

Birkbeck College, Department of History , University of London Hot

Ratings

RAE 2001: 4

Teaches undergraduate courses in archaeology and history from Classical Greece to Medieval Europe. Several practical training projects and excavations in Britain, Romania and Italy.

York University Dept of Archaeology Hot

Ratings

RAE 2001: 3a
TQA 2001: 24

The York dept has long been renowned for its expertise in the archaeology of the last 2000 years. Now it is extending its range back to the Palaeolithic and will be including far more prehistory in its undergraduate syllabus than previously. An Archaeology Data Service and electronic journal `Internet Archaeology` are based at the department as is the journal Antiquity. Field Archaeology Specialists, an independent unit staffed largely by alumni of the dept, operates in association with the University. Castell Henllys training excavation ongoing- see fieldwork section in this handbook.

Aberystwyth, University of Wales Hot

Courses include 'later prehistoric' and 'Roman Britain', 'Roman army' within modular structure of single and Joint Hons degree in History.

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Calling all independent archaeologists!

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AD 886 - Return to the Roman City: Bullwharf

On Christmas Day 886, King Alfred, exasperated by the attacks of the Danes, finally decided to abandon the undefended 'open' site of Lundenwic, and to return to the safety of the old Roman walls. At Bullwharf, evidence of this very first return has been discovered, on a site already recorded in the documents as 'Queenhythe'.