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Get all the latest entries as the database is uploaded.Archaeology Live! 2010: Hungate, York
28.6.10-17.9.10
Annual community training excavations for the Archaeology Live! Event hosted by the Dig Hungate project of York Archaeological Trust. Excavations on the biggest site in York for 25 years, part of the Hungate (York) Regeneration Ltd development. The 2010 season will concentrate eastern side of the site where archaeological features from the Viking and Medieval periods disturb an area where Roman burials and cremations have been found. Trainees can come for as little as one day or for several weeks. There is a minimum age limit of 16. During Archaeology Live! the archaeology will be excavated and recorded by the trainees; the trainers teach and assist when required. It is a field-based training programme where people learn by doing the excavation, and by discovering and recording the archaeology themselves, rather than by classroom based tuition. See also Forum and Facebook Group. Please get in touch regarding longer courses. Main YAT office on 01904 615505.
Cost £50/day 190/week.
For more information contact Toby Kendall
at Training Dig, York Archaeological Trust, 47 Aldwark YO1 7BX, tel 07908 210026 (mob), email trainingdig@yorkat.co.uk, web www.dighungate.com/.
Colvend, Dumfries and Galloway
30.6.10-25.9.10
Annual excavations of the Stewartry Archaeological Trust. Investigating pre-historic burials and later Iron Age to Medieval settlement evidence on 3 Neolithic Kerb Cairns on the Newbarns Estate. Suitable for beginners and students. A few places for experienced diggers only on 13th/14th century motte hill at nearby Ingleston, Gelston. All new applicants must email or enclose an SAE or IRC if posting.
Cost £contact.
For more information contact Lizzie Penman
at SAT secretary, tel 01556 680478, email lizzie@sat.org.uk, web www.sat.org.uk.
Caerleon, South Wales
9.8.10-17.9.10
Archaeologists from Cardiff University and UCL are returning to Priory Field in Caerleon for the second and final season of excavations on the site of a large store or warehouse within the legionary fortress. Visitors are welcome and archaeologists from the excavation will give tours at 11am and 2.30pm every day except Mondays. The excavation is open throughout the Summer Bank Holiday weekend (28/30 August), when as well as tours there will be displays of the latest finds, a 'mini-dig', and lots of other archaeological activities to join in. To follow the fortunes of the excavations in Caerleon this year, log on to the Dig Blog.
Cost £contact.
For more information contact Peter Guest
at Senior Lecturer in Roman Archaeology, Undergraduate Admissions Tutor, Cardiff School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University, Humanities Building, Colum Drive CF10 3EU, tel 029 2087 6538, email GuestP@cardiff.ac.uk, web www.britarch.ac.uk/caf/wikka.php?wakka=CaerleonLegionaryFortress.
Syndale Park, Kent
14.8.10-12.9.10
Training excavation week for beginners 23.8.10 to 27.8.10. Recent geophysical survey and excavation in the summer of 2009 has identified Roman burials and C1st Roman double ditches alongside the Roman Watling Street. Excavation and recording of these Roman features in a genuine course of discovery. Beginners are welcome to the Training Course with the option to continue for further days (same daily fee applies). Experienced participants may book the days they wish. Topics taught each day are: Monday, History of the Site and Why dig?; Tuesday, Excavation Techniques; Wednesday, Site Survey; Thursday, Archaeological Recording; Friday, Small Finds Recording. No U16s. Other short courses, trips and holidays may also be of interest.
Cost £20 members or 30 others per day. 100 GBP training.
For more information contact the organisers
at The Kent Archaeological Field School (KAFS), School Farm Oast, Graveney Road ME13 8UP, tel 01795 532548, email info@kafs.co.uk, web www.kafs.co.uk.
Roman Road, Hampshire
24.9.10-27.9.10
Roman Road excavations will continue the work on the Winchester Roman Road towards London. Experienced and novice excavators welcome as there is a training course available during these digs. Booking can be for any number of days, including one. Minimum unaccompanied age is 16, but younger children with an adult welcome. Publications on this and other Roman Roads will be available. Campsite and accommodation leads given.
A new site is planned on the second Centuriation Road to be surveyed, on a line with air photo streaks and a parish boundary with a substantial terrace. We will return to two previous sites. One near Farnham, where two terraces climb the sides of a narrow valley, and it may be a two-lane highway. Last year one terraces was found to be an elaborately laid roadway, with long pieces of ironstone laid at 70 depress to the roadway with their second longest sides nearly vertical. The site near Four Marks on the northern surveyed Centuriation Road we found a large ditch coinciding with a dark air photo streak, with possible remains of stonework along one side coinciding with a light line. This will be continued on the site of a possible Centuriation crossroads. Training will include exercises in layout of trenches, planning of features, section drawings, levelling and geophysics. Information on some of the advanced techniques being used to detect this Road will be given, with some exercises. SAE appreciated for postal enquiries. Further information online. This is NOT the official website of NEHHAS.
Cost £60 training/10 season.
For more information contact Richard Whaley
at Field works and School Director, 2 Rotherwick Court, Alexandra Road GU14 6DD, tel 01252 548115, email pcil.bt@ukonline.co.uk
Parham House, West Sussex
15.10.10-18.10.10
Excavations in the grounds of Parham House by the Worthing Archaeological Society in conjunction with the Parham Estate will continue for the fourth season. The work is part of the long-term project to try and locate the lost medieval village on the estate, and will concentrate on the site of the Parsonage (pulled down around 1740). Experienced and novice excavators welcome as training is available during these digs. Booking can be for any number of days, including one. Minimum unaccompanied age is 16, but younger children with an adult welcome. Members FREE, or join the Society.
Cost £15/4 students for annual membership.
For more information contact Ian Robertson
at Project Manager, Worthing Archaeological Society, email worthing.arch@gmail.com, web sites.google.com/site/worthingarch/Home.
Excavations fact sheet
The CBA has a free fact sheet covering Everything you always wanted to know about archaeological excavations but were afraid to ask. Copies can be obtained from Jenny Hudson at St Mary's House, 66 Bootham, York YO30 7BZ, tel 01904 671417, or can be downloaded from the CBA web site at www.britarch.ac.uk/CBA/factshts.html
Archaeology Abroad
Archaeology Abroad was established in 1972 to provide information about opportunities for archaeological fieldwork and excavation outside the UK. Around 1000 places are advertised annually for volunteers, professional staff and specialists on wide variety of projects of all periods, in diverse locations worldwide. Bulletins are published twice a year, in April & November. An annual subscription can be obtained from the Honorary Secretary, Archaeology Abroad, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY, fax 020 7383 2572, or from the CBA Online Shop at www.britarch.ac.uk/shop/, email arch.abroad@ucl.ac.uk, web www.britarch.ac.uk/archabroad
2007 Archaeological Fieldwork Opportunities Bulletin
The Archaeological Institute of America publishes an annual bulletin of worldwide archaeological fieldwork opportunities, which is also searchable online at www.archaeological.org. The 2007 issue is available from Oxbow Books, Park End Place, Oxford OX1 1HN, tel 01865 241249, fax 01865 794449, email oxbow@oxbowbooks.com, web www.oxbowbooks.com
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