In June 2013, Bournemouth University will be running their final year of excavations. The site is a late Iron Age ‘banjo’ settlement containing round houses, work surfaces, storage pits and the footings of a Roman masonry building. The site is located in the beautiful county of Dorset, which has one of the best-preserved archaeological landscapes [...]
The Durotriges Big Dig
March 12, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: Dorset |
Dates: 03-28 June
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Cost: TBC
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, [...]
Isfield Enclosure Training Excavation 2013
March 10, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: Isfield, East Sussex
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Dates: 08 July-02 August
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Cost: See Website
The Sussex School of Archaeology are looking for volunteers to take part in the excavation of a new site, Isfield Enclosure, situated to the north of Lewes in East Sussex. This will provide the main focus for both the field schools and training excavation in the summer. The site consists of a large, ditched enclosure [...]
Dorchester-on-Thames
March 10, 2013 By Filed Under: Fieldwork
Location: Dorchester, Oxfordshire
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Dates: July |
Cost: £250 per week
Dorchester-on-Thames is one of the very few sites in the country where urbanised activity running through the late Iron Age, Roman, and Anglo-Saxon period has not been obscured by later development. It is a key site for British archaeology. In collaboration with Oxford Archaeology, and members of the community, the School of Archaeology has been [...]
Roman Colchester: burning insights
March 8, 2013 By Filed Under: News
Following the discovery of unusual ringfenced burials from Roman Colchester, further evidence of Camulodunum’s diverse funerary practices comes with the discovery of a rare bustum or pyre burial, found during a Colchester Archaeological Trust excavation on the site of the city’s Roman garrison. Closer examination of the cremation yielded something more elusive still: traces of [...]
PRESS RELEASE: Canterbury Archaeological Trust wins prestigious award as Rescue Dig of the Year following a record number of votes from the general public
March 5, 2013 By Filed Under: Press
Top honours for Rescue Dig of the Year at the prestigious Current Archaeology Awards went to Canterbury Archaeological Trust for their work at Folkestone Roman villa. First examined in 1924, coastal erosion prompted a re-examination of the site before it was lost forever. This revealed that the villa overlay a major Iron Age port of trade receiving large [...]
PRESS RELEASE: Roman Camps in Britain wins prestigious Book of the Year award following a record number of votes from the general public
March 5, 2013 By Filed Under: Press
Top honours for Book of the Year (sponsored by Oxbow Books) at the prestigious Current Archaeology Awards went to Rebecca Jones for Roman Camps in Britain (published by Amberley). This volume brings to life the mostly ephemeral traces of the temporary fortifications built by the Roman army while engaged in military campaigns or construction projects in Britain. [...]
