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 [...]
Dig Greater Manchester
Location: Bolton, Rochdale, Manchester and Salford |
Dates: March, April, July and September |
Cost: Free
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 [...]
Nautical Archaeology Society
March 13, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: Along the British Coastline
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Dates: From March 2013 |
Cost: See website for details
The Nautical Archaeology Society offers award winning training in archaeology along the British coastline, and in our lakes, rivers and waterways. The training programme is open to students of all ages, backgrounds and levels of expertise. From March 2013 you can undertake the first two levels of the programme via the society’s ELearning programme in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
