Get all the latest entries as the database is uploaded. 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.
For more information contact Toby Kendall at Training Dig, York Archaeological Trust, 47 Aldwark, York, North Yorkshire YO1 7BX, tel 07908 210026 (mob), email trainingdig@yorkat.co.uk, web www.dighungate.com/.
Training is provided in the form of on-site included in fee. Accommodation is provided in the form of self catering single rooms (extra).. The cost is £50/day 190/week.
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.
For more information contact Lizzie Penman at SAT secretary, tel 01556 680478, email lizzie@sat.org.uk, web www.sat.org.uk.
Training is provided in the form of by arrangement. Accommodation is provided in the form of camping/caravan site or B+Bs.. The cost is £contact.
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.
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, Cardiff CF10 3EU, tel 029 2087 6538, email GuestP@cardiff.ac.uk, web www.britarch.ac.uk/caf/wikka.php?wakka=CaerleonLegionaryFortress.
.. The cost is £contact.
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.
For more information contact the organisers at The Kent Archaeological Field School (KAFS), School Farm Oast, Graveney Road, Faversham, Kent ME13 8UP, tel 01795 532548, email info@kafs.co.uk, web www.kafs.co.uk.
Training is provided in the form of included in fee during set week.. The cost is £20 members or 30 others per day. 100 GBP training.
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.
For more information contact Richard Whaley at Field works and School Director, 2 Rotherwick Court, Alexandra Road, Farnborough, Hampshire GU14 6DD, tel 01252 548115, email pcil.bt@ukonline.co.uk.
Training is provided in the form of on-site included on request. Accommodation is provided in the form of leads given.. The cost is £60 training/10 season.
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.
For more information contact Ian Robertson at Project Manager, Worthing Archaeological Society, email worthing.arch@gmail.com, web sites.google.com/site/worthingarch/Home.
Training is provided in the form of on-site by request. Accommodation is provided in the form of leads given.. The cost is £15/4 students for annual membership.
Archaeology Abroad provides information about archaeological excavation and field school opportunities outside the UK suitable for all pockets and levels of experience. The Archaeology Abroad bulletin is published annually in spring on CD-ROM, an interactive format which enables readers to access additional information about projects and other information listed via live email and web links. The annual bulletin is supplemented throughout the year by Email Updates, keeping subscribers fully up to date with all the latest opportunities. An annual subscription can be obtained from the Honorary Secretary, Archaeology Abroad, 31–34 Gordon Square, London WC1H OPY, fax 020 8537 0849, or via the CBA Online Shop at: www.britach.ac.uk/shop, email arch.abroad@ucl.ac.uk, web www.britarch.ac.uk/archabroad.
The Archaeological Institute of America annual bulletin of worldwide archaeological fieldwork opportunities is also searchable online at www.archaeological.org. The current 'AFOB' issue is priced c£14.95 and can be obtained from Oxbow Books Ltd, 10 Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford, OX1 2EW, tel 01865 241249, fax 01865 794449, email oxbow@oxbowbooks.com, web www.oxbowbooks.com (UK &Europe) or David Brown Books for elsewhere in the world.
From BAJR (British Archaeological Jobs Resource) comes Past Horizons – bringing free access to all and over 400 sites across the world, from training to paid. It is updated weekly, and has additional expert information and a blog which highlights current conferences, funding and volunteer opportunities. Contact via email info@pasthorizons.com, web www.pasthorizons.com.
This popular online tool lists fieldwork opportunities worldwide, including the UK and Ireland: see web archaeology.about.com
Another worldwide fieldwork opportunities listing. See www.shovelbums.org.
Database last updated 19 August 2010 by Seren Langley.
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