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
Advance Archaeology
Location: Cumbernauld, and site near Stirling |
Dates: 19 August-30 August 2013 |
Cost: £550.00
This August, Advance Archaeology will be investigating and recording two conflict sites. The first is a WWII ‘Starfish’ Command Bunker located in Westfield, which was built as part of the Clyde Anti Aircraft Battery. Participants will help identify the extent of decoy defences in the local area, and establish why the bunkers were placed a [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
