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 [...]
Thames Discovery Programme (TDP)
Location: London |
Dates: April - September |
Cost: Training session £100 (£50 concessions) and free thereafter
Bingham Digs
Location: Bingham, South Nottinghamshire |
Dates: Second half of April-July |
Cost: Free
Bingham Heritage Trails Association is currently working on an HLF-funded project called the Roots and Development of Bingham, which will finish in January 2015. One part of the project involves detailed studies of a number of old houses in Bingham, a market town in south Nottinghamshire. The other part is a programme of 1-metre test [...]
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 [...]
Irish Archaeological Field School
March 13, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: Blackfriary Dominican Abbey in Trim, Co. Meath, Ireland
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Dates: 20 May–23 August
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Cost: €1000 for two weeks
The Irish Archaeology Field School will be hosting a fourth season of excavations at the 13th century Dominican Abbey of Blackfriary in the town of Trim, Co. Meath. This is a training excavation and students over the age of 18 will be taught excavation methods by a team of professional archaeologists. This year, the project [...]
Green Farm Neolithic Settlement, Isle of Eday
March 13, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: Orkney |
Dates: 18th May – 30th June, 13th July – 24th August
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Cost: £230 for one week, up to £500 for four weeks or more
The excavation of Green Farm, an artefact-rich Neolithic settlement site on the Isle of Eday in Orkney, has been ongoing for the last six years. Previous excavations have revealed several stone buildings, at least one of which had a complex sequence of occupation with interlinked hearths and runnels (narrow channels in the ground for liquid [...]
Rocky Clump
March 13, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: Rocky Clump, Stanmer, Britghton |
Dates: 30 March-End of October
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Cost: £12 society membership (£6 for students)
Brighton and Hove Archaeological Society are continuing their excavation at Rocky Clump, a Romano-British farming settlement in Stanmer, near Brighton. The site is a Late Iron Age to 4th century AD Romano-British enclosure and farmstead. Features include numerous post holes and pits, and a series of very large ditches forming an earlier enclosure. One area [...]
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 [...]
Winchester -Guildford – London Roman Road
March 12, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: Four Marks and Cheriton, Hampshire |
Dates: March-September 2013
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Cost: £10 to join society, £6 for training manual
NEHHAS Field Archaeology Branch will be digging at a site off the A31 at Four Marks, near Alton Hants. Participants will have the opportunity to experience the main tasks associated with an excavation under the supervision and guidance of a member of the society. There is also a training exercise (5-day minimum) that participants can [...]
Achill Archaeological Field School
March 12, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: Dooagh, Achill Island, Co Mayo, Ireland
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Dates: 15 April-30 August
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Cost: Fees vary from £450 per week
The field school will be running a number of courses including introductory and specialist programmes. From April to June, students will work at the deserted post-Medieval village at Slievemore to begin excavating at House 6, one of the many structures now standing empty on the southern slopes of the island’s largest mountain. The settlement grew [...]
Stirling Council Archaeology
March 12, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: Killearn, Plean, and Abbey Craig
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Dates: May, June and September
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Cost: Free
Archaeologist, Murray Cook, will be running a series of training digs on behalf of Stirling Council. For those interested in trying archaeology for a day, the council is offering a series of free digs across the year. Projects will include the exploration of a 17th Century Designed landscape and Medieval hollow ways (sunken lanes) in [...]
Marks Hall Jacobean Mansion
March 12, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: Colchester, Essex
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Dates: Spring-October
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Cost: Free
Colchester Archaeological Group are conducting their final excavation at Marks Hall Estate in Essex. As part of the Historical Research Project run by Essex University, and at the request of the Trustees of Marks Hall Estate, the excavation hopes to identify the location of the footprint of a lost Jacobean Mansion, and to seek evidence [...]
Bury Archaeological Group
March 11, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: Gristlehurst Farm, Heywood, Manchester
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Dates: Wednesdays, April - October |
Cost: Free (£10 annual membership)
This year Bury Archaeological Group will be excavating at the site of Gristlehurst Hall near Heywood, Manchester. The project aims to identity the exact location of the original hall, and its possible relationship to surviving buildings. Investigations are at present concentrated in an area that seems to have been occupied by hall outbuildings from the [...]
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 [...]
Archaeology In Marlow
March 10, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: Warren Wood, Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire
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Dates: Once a fortnight from April to October 2013
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Cost: £2 per day for non-members, free for members
From April 2013, Archaeology In Marlow (AIM) will be conducting further investigations at the site of Warren Wood in Little Marlow, Bucks. This site comprises of a double enclosure earthwork believed to be Medieval in date. Evidence of Neolithic artefacts and Iron Age pottery suggests the origins of the site are much earlier. From April [...]
