Orpington District and Archaeological Society (ODAS) will be conducting their 27th year of excavations at Scadbury Manor, a Medieval moated manor house in Chislehurst, Kent. Membership of ODAS is required to participate in the excavation, and those wishing to dig must be over the age of 18 unless accompanied by an adult. Excavation dates are [...]
Scadbury Manor
March 13, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: Scadbury Park |
Dates: Dates available on joining ODAS
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Cost: £10-£13 membership fee
Theobalds and Elsyng Tudor and Jacobean Palaces
March 13, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: Cheshunt and Enfield |
Dates: Throughout July
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Cost: £9 annual membership
Enfield Archaeological Society are running two main summer excavations this year. The first is on the site of Theobalds Tudor/Stuart royal palace, and later Georgian and Victorian buildings at CedarsPark in Cheshunt. The second excavation will be on a 17th century L-shaped threshing barn on the site of the earlier Elsyng royal palace in the [...]
Ashtead Roman Villa and Tile Works
March 13, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: Ashtead Roman Villa, Ashtead Common, Ashtead, Surrey
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Dates: 28 August-01 September, 04-08 September, 11-15 September
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Cost: £5 per day, or free to Roman Study Group members
Surrey Archaeological Society is planning an eighth season of excavation at Ashtead Roman Villa and Tileworks. Volunteers are invited to take part across three weeks in August and September. In 2012, the team developed their knowledge of the early buildings west of the Roman ‘villa’, and this work will continue in 2013. Questions raised by [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Heritage Writtle
March 11, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: Writtle, Essex
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Dates: Throughout the year one morning a week
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Cost: Free, membership required (£10 annual membership)
Heritage Writtle is a group of local enthusiasts who first united in 2003 to investigate the historic village and parish of Writtle in Essex. The club meets one morning a week throughout the course of the year to examine, interpret and record aspects of the area’s history through field walking, metal-detecting, excavation, and post-excavation work. [...]
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 [...]
