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
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I’ve been in London 50 years!
November 6, 2012 By Filed Under: Andrew Selkirk
It’s Guy Fawkes night – 5 November 2012 — and I have been in London for 50 years. I first came to London in 1962 to take up a new job and a new life as an articled clerk, and I stayed with my friend David at the Belsize Square Residential Club, a somewhat seedy [...]
University College London, Institute of Archaeology
April 17, 2011 By Filed Under: Universities
Undergraduate courses: Archaeology BA,
Archaeology BSc,
Archaeology and Anthrpology BA,
Egyptian Archaeology BA,
Classical Archaeology and Classical Civilisation BA,
Ancient History and Egyptology BA,
UCL is the largest archaeological department in the country and offers an exceptionally wide range of topics covering both archaeological practice and cultural area studies.
Birkbeck College, Department of History
November 30, 1999 By Filed Under: Universities
Undergraduate courses: History and Archaeology BA,
Archaeology BA,
Teaches undergraduate courses in archaeology and history from Classical Greece to Medieval Europe. Several practical training projects and excavations in Britain, Romania and Italy.
