Nottinghamshire County Council’s Community Archaeology Team will be running an Archaeological Field School in the grounds of Rufford Abbey from Monday 1st to Friday 5th July. The field school is ideal for people who want to get a proper introduction to professional excavation techniques. Excavation will take place on the foundations of an ornamental gateway at [...]
Rufford Abbey Field School
May 14, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: Rufford Abbey, near Ollerton, Nottinghamshire |
Dates: 1-5 July 2013 |
Cost: Free
Digging Roman Devon
April 16, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: Ipplepen, south Devon |
Dates: 27 July-24 August |
Cost: £200 per week
The University of Exeter will continue excavation at the Romano British site near Ipplepen, South Devon, from 27 July to 24 August 2013. Ipplepen is a large scale dig where geophysical surveys have uncovered evidence of an extensive settlement including roundhouses, quarry pits and track ways. Previous excavation work revealed the remains of a round house, [...]
SHARP Day Courses
Location: Norfolk parish of Sedgeford |
Dates: 14, 18 and 27 July, 7 August |
Cost: £40.00
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 & [...]
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 [...]
DigVentures 2013 Field School
Location: Leiston Abbey, Theberton, Leiston, Suffolk |
Dates: 02-21 July |
Cost: Variable – please visit website for more details
In July 2013, DigVentures field school will be undertaking the first ever large-scale archaeological investigation at Leiston Abbey, a Scheduled Ancient Monument composed of mainly 14th century remains. Located just half a mile from the beautiful Suffolk coast, it was founded in 1182 by Augustinian canons, and is one of the finest and most complete examples [...]
Burrough Hill Archaeological Field School
Location: Burrough Hill Country Park, Somerby Road, Leicestershire |
Dates: 24 June-05 July |
Cost: £200 per person, per week
This year the University of Leicester is calling for volunteers to spend a week working on the site of Burrough Hill in Leicestershire. This Iron Age site is the finest example of a large univallate (single banked) hillfort in Leicestershire and has protected status as a Scheduled Monument. Participants will receive a full programme of [...]
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 [...]
North Duffield Conservation and Local History Society
Location: Parkhouse Farm, North Duffield |
Dates: 20-26 July between 10.00 and 16.30 daily |
Cost: Free
Volunteers are invited to attend the community excavation at Parkhouse Farm, North Duffield. In 2012, the society uncovered a round feature showing up as a crop mark, cautiously identified as an Iron Age hut-circle. Excavation also revealed sections of a circular and linear ditch, both containing Iron Age pottery. In July 2013, the society plans [...]
Dig Greater Manchester
Location: Bolton, Rochdale, Manchester and Salford |
Dates: March, April, July and September |
Cost: Free
Dig Greater Manchester (DGM) is a five-year community engagement project designed to widen participation in heritage in the Greater Manchester Area. The project is funded by the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities, and run by the Centre for Applied Archaeology at the University of Salford. The project aims to provide local communities access to their [...]
Moel-y-Gaer, Bodfari
Location: Bodfari, Denbighshire, North Wales, SJ 095 708 |
Dates: 21 July-02 August |
Cost: Free
The University of Oxford are currently running a programme of archaeological research at Moel-y-Gaer, Bodfari. Moel-y-Gaer, Bodfari is one of a series of well preserved but poorly understood Iron Age hillforts on the Clwydian Range in North Wales. Building on the recent work of the Heather and Hillforts Project, the programme aims to combine survey [...]
Meillionydd
Location: Meillionydd near Rhiw, Llyn Peninsula, North-West Wales |
Dates: 01-27 July |
Cost: Free
This fourth season of excavations at Meillionydd, Rhiw, will continue to explore a ‘double ringwork’ hilltop enclosure. Despite producing one of the most well-preserved, abundant, and comprehensively surveyed settlement records in Wales, the archaeology of the area remains under-researched and poorly understood: few recent excavations have been carried out, chronologies are not well defined, and [...]
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 [...]
Fort Arbeia and the Roman Empire in Britain
March 13, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: South Shields, Tyne & Wear
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Dates: Various, June - August |
Cost: Contributions range from £525 - £1450 depending on expedition length
Students are invited to take part in the permanent excavation site of South Shields Roman Fort, a Roman military and civilian settlement that lies within the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Hadrian’s Wall. For over a decade, Earthwatch teams have helped meticulously map more than 1,000 square meters of pre-Roman and Roman settlement here, with [...]
Binchester Excavation Project
March 13, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: Binchester, County Durham
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Dates: 03 June – 26 July
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Cost: TBC
Binchester Excavation Project is a five-year programme of large-scale seasonal fieldwork that began in June 2009 at Binchester Roman Fort in Bishop Auckland. The archaeological dig involves students from institutions including Durham University, Stanford University California and members of the Architectural & Archaeological Society of Durham & Northumberland. This year the excavation will focus on [...]
University of Bristol Archaeology Summer Schools
March 13, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol, and Berkeley Castle, 20 miles from Bristol
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Dates: July and August
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Cost: For both field schools £250 per person per week
This year, the University of Bristol will be running a number of archaeological summer schools at both beginner and intermediate levels. The introductory course will comprise of two-and-a-half days of classroom tuition, a half-day surveying session, and two days of practical excavation experience. The advanced field school will consist of five full days of excavation, [...]
CSV Heritage Camps (Cathedral Camps)
March 13, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: All over the UK |
Dates: July and August
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Cost: £200
CSV Heritage Camps is an exciting volunteering opportunity that gives young people the chance to participate in the care of some of the greatest examples of historical architecture. Each summer in July and August, CSV runs a series of residential camps that are ideal for anyone who may have an interest in heritage conservation or [...]
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 [...]
The Lost City of Trellech Project
March 13, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: North-East Gwent, Wales |
Dates: 13 July-11 August |
Cost: Free, but donations welcome
Monmouth Archaeology Society (MAS) will be conducting their 12th year of excavations at Trellech – one of the largest medieval settlements in Wales. The project’s primary aim is to record and better understand the development of the site. This year, the project will focus on the formerly bustling main high street., with finds usually dating [...]
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 [...]
