The Nent Valley Archaeological Research Project is an archaeological field school which has been set up to record the archaeological resource in the North Pennines, and beyond. The project aims to provide archaeology students, and prospective entrants into archaeology courses at university, the opportunity to gain valuable fieldwork experience by participating in the project; skills available to be taught are: Surveying Techniques; Excavation Techniques; Archaeological Planning Techniques; Environmental and Finds Processing Techniques; Building Recording Techniques; Computer Aided Drawing (Digitising).
This year, the project will be concentrating on the Smallcleugh Mines area of the site.
