This Year, Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project will also be running several day courses, combining archaeological teaching with a fun day out. There are three courses to choose from which take place in July and August: Cooking up an Anglo Saxon Feast, Flint in Archaeology: a basic introduction, and Flint Knapping with John & [...]
SHARP Day Courses
Location: Norfolk parish of Sedgeford |
Dates: 14, 18 and 27 July, 7 August |
Cost: £40.00
Thames Discovery Programme (TDP)
Location: London |
Dates: April - September |
Cost: Training session £100 (£50 concessions) and free thereafter
The Thames Discovery Programme, now in its fifth year, aims to involve the public in recording and monitoring the fast disappearing archaeology of the Thames foreshore. Over millennia, archaeological deposits, features and finds have built up, but much of the foreshore is now eroding and the archaeology is being washed away. As there is little [...]
Poulton Research Project
March 13, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: Poulton, Cheshire |
Dates: 25 March-26 April, 24 June-30 August
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Cost: Ranges from £80-£125 per week depending on dates and duration
Poulton is a multi-period rural site located three miles south of Chester. It has yielded evidence of almost 9,500 years of human activity. This season (running from March-August), the project will be concentrating on the Medieval chapel graveyard so participants will be excavating and recording human remains. Past excavations in the area have uncovered 650 [...]
The Sussex School of Archaeology
March 13, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: Different locations in Sussex |
Dates: March-December
8 October
15 October |
Cost: Most courses £30
The Sussex School of Archaeology is a new and exciting venture providing archaeology courses to the general public, as well as more specialised training courses for amateur and professional archaeologists. They will run a series of day schools, evening classes and trips, together with practical training courses to suit the interested armchair archaeologist as well [...]
Newbarns Project
March 13, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: Newbarns, between Colvend and Sandyhills
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Dates: 1–28 July, 2–29 September
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Cost: £45 per week up to 2 weeks then free (booking Fee £20 when accepted)
In the months of July and September, the Newbarns Excavation in Scotland will be investigating a prehistoric cemetery area comprising three Kerb Cairns set into the end of a drained loch. Among other features, cremation deposits inserted into the cairns and shrines are led into by apparent cobbled pathways and beautifully constructed Portal Ways leading [...]
Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project (SHARP)
March 13, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: Sedgeford, Norfolk |
Dates: 07 July-16 August
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Cost: From £80-£290 per week
This long-term, multi-period, multi-disciplinary research project is one of the largest independent archaeological projects in Britain. Its primary objective is to work with the local community to investigate the entire range of human settlement and land use in the Norfolk parish of Sedgeford. Although only a relatively small village, Sedgeford has an incredibly rich heritage [...]
Copped Hall Trust Archaeological Project
March 13, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: By M25, between Epping and Waltham Abbey, Essex |
Dates: July (beginners), August (those who have learned the basics) |
Cost: £90 per week (£50 for taster weekends)
This year, CHTAP will be running a series of three Taster Weekends at Copped Hall, a ruined country house located near Epping in Essex. It is an important archaeological site with a complex sequence of building phases. Its recorded history starts in the 12th century. The Taster Weekends will be open to beginners in July [...]
Bexley Archaeological Group
March 13, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: Bexley, South East London
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Dates: 29 July-02 August
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Cost: £100, includes annual membership
Bexley Archaeological Group (BAG) will be running their annual summer training excavation week at their on-going site in Bexley, Kent. Novice excavators from all over the country are invited to participate. All excavators will have the opportunity to experience the main tasks associated with an excavation, under the supervision and guidance of the Field Officers [...]
Kent Archaeological Field School (KAFS)
March 13, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: Teston and Hollingbourne in Kent
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Dates: July and August
2-5 June
1-19 August |
Cost: £25 per day for non-members, £35 per day for members
This year KAFS have organised a number of excavations for students of all ability levels. For those who have no digging experience, a training course will run in August at Abbey Barns Roman Villa in Faversham. Afternoons are spent digging with KAFS experts whilst specific topics are covered in morning classes, including excavating techniques, recording, [...]
The Silchester Field School 2013
March 13, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: Silchester Roman Town, near Reading, Hampshire
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Dates: 01 July- 11 August
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Cost: £75 - £275 per week depending on experience
The 2013 FieldSchool will see its 17th season of excavation at the Silchester Town Life Project. This site, located just ten miles from Reading, is unusual because it was completely abandoned during the 5th century. The excavations focus on Insula IX, an industrial and commercial district at the heart of Silchester. This season, which runs [...]
Tamnafalloch, Rampart Scotland
March 13, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: The Trossachs, Scotland |
Dates: 25-26 May
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Cost: £50 per day
This year Rampart Scotland will be hosting a fun two-day taster dig on a 3,000 year-old hillfort at Tamnafalloch in Callander. Participants will be given an introduction into Scotland’s hillforts, as well as a learning some of the basic methods of archaeology. Cost includes training, but participants should bring their own food. Anyone below the [...]
Société Jersiaise
March 12, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: Jersey, Channel Islands
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Dates: Excavations: 13 July-11 August; Guided Walks: various days between 08 and 28 July; Conference: 06-07 July |
Cost: Free, membership required (£6 students and £55 adults per year)
Under the direction of Field Archaeologist, Robert Waterhouse, the archaeology branch of the Société Jersiaise will be carrying out summer research excavations at St Clement. This is the second season of a long-term project to identify the extent and nature of Iron Age and Roman settlement evidence on the island. The excavations are free of charge, [...]
Osteoarchaeology Initiatives
March 11, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: Stockwood Discovery Centre, Luton
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Dates: May and June |
Cost: £97 per day
This year Stockwood Discovery Centre has announced a new and updated program of osteoarchaeology courses. All courses are aimed at increasing knowledge of human skeletal remains, providing thorough hands-on access and teaching people how to identify sex, age, and pathologies on skeletons that are over 1500 years old. Luton Culture is hosting one or two-day [...]
