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Welcome to the Leaders' Area of the YAC website!
Choose one of the options below to find everything you'll need as a volunteer with the Young Archaeologists' Club.
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Thank you to all the Branches who returned their Annual Return paperwork by the deadline of 14th May. We are currently processing the results and a report will be available on the website soon, so keep checking back.
If your Branch hasn't yet returned the paperwork you still need to send it in. The auditors are visiting the CBA soon and we really do need to receive all of your paperwork by then. What do you need to do?
Remember: we will not be issuing £50 grants to Branches who return their annual report and financial return after the 14th May unless the Branch contacted us beforehand to advise us of the delay.
Send your completed returns to Emily Hellewell, YAC Annual Returns, St Mary's House, 66 Bootham, York. YO30 7BZ. Or email them to yac@yac-uk.org
You can read the report summarising the 2008-2009 Annual Returns by clicking here. If you made a suggestion for the future of YAC, the report contains some responses from Wendi Terry so please have a look!
The Helper Survey has now closed, thank you to everyone who responded. We are currently processing the results and a summary will be available here soon.
You can now recommend a person, place or resource for the YAC Useful Contacts List by filling in the Useful Contact form and emailing it to us at yac@yac-uk.org.
The Useful Contacts List is a document which lists contact details for suppliers of artefacts, places to visit and specialists who have been recommended to YAC.
Go to the Useful Contacts List section to find the downloadable document.
The files on this page are available to download in both PDF and Microsoft Word format. Please note that the PDF files are smaller (and therefore quicker for your computer to download).
To access PDF files, you will need Adobe Reader or similar on your computer. This is a free piece of software that can be downloaded by clicking on the logo in the white box below.
To access Microsoft Word files, you will need either the full version of Microsoft Word (part of Microsoft Office) or MS Word Viewer on your computer. You can download a free copy of MS Word Viewer by clicking on the link in the white box below.
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If you are unsure whether you have the correct program(s) on your computer, or want further advice, please contact YAC HQ in York.
Email: yac@yac-uk.org
Sections of the Handbook were updated in March 2009 to reflect changes in our policy for dealing with allergies. The new version of the handbook can be downloaded below.
Please note: printed versions of the pages containing changes have been sent to each Branch directly.
Each Branch should have two copies of the Handbook, and everyone involved with your Branch should read it and be aware
of the good practice contained therein.
The current YAC Leaders' Handbook was printed and distributed around the Branch network in June 2007.
You can download the full text of the Handbook, in Parts, by right-clicking on the links below and selecting 'Save Link As...' or 'Save Target As...':
| Part One: Who We Are | Download  PDF version (2.01MB) |
| Part Two: YAC Meetings | Download PDF version (0.5MB) |
| Part Three: Running a Branch | Download PDF version (1.12MB) |
| Part Four: Safety | Download PDF version (4.32MB) |
If you would like a copy of the Leaders' Handbook on CD, please contact YAC HQ in York.
All of the forms and documents contained within Part Five of the Handbook are downloadable from this page of the YAC website.
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In several sections of the Leaders' Handbook it states that further information or useful links are available on the Leaders' section of the YAC website. This supplementary information can be found below:
| Handbook page | Description | Download/External link |
| Page 10 | Facilitator contacts and details for craft specialists, archaeological societies, groups and organisations; all tried and tested by YAC Branches and YAC HQ | PDF /  ord
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| Page 10 | The Portable Antiquities Scheme website, includes contact details for your local Finds Liasion Officer | www.finds.org.uk |
| Pages 12 and 14 | Learning Styles Questionnaire | PDF / ord
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| Pages 12 and 14 | Further information on working with people with different learning styles | PDF / ord
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| Page 14 | Step-by-step procedure for poor behaviour on YAC holidays | PDF / ord
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| Page 19 | Advice and information on building a Branch website | To follow, please check back for updates |
| Page 22 | The CBA's Memorandum and Articles of Association | PDF / ord
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| Page 33 | YAC's full policy statement on child protection | PDF / ord
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| Page 44 | An example of a completed risk assessment and briefing form | PDF / ord
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| Pages 44 and 46 | Emergency procedure used on the YAC holidays | PDF / ord
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| Page 50 | 'Standards for LEAs in Overseeing Educational Visits' | Click here to access the document on the TeacherNet website |
| Page 52 | Route plans for walks on moorland, open ground and coasts (further information, an example route plan and a blank master document) | PDF / ord
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| Page 57 | YAC Standard Procedure for Working With YAC Members - A Guide for Facilitators (to be given to experts working with your Branch) | PDF
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To make it easier for you to run your YAC Branch, you can now download all the forms and documents that you need from here. The forms are grouped into:
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YAC HQ provides a number of different resources to help you plan Branch sessions and give you ideas for archaeological activities that you can do with your YAC members.
In this section you can find the contents of the information packs that we gave out to Leaders at previous Leaders' Weekends and Skills Training sessions. There are also links to other YAC related resources that may be helpful to you.
Don't forget to look at the Activity Ideas section of the website where you can find tried and tested ideas from other YAC Leaders.
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| Itinerary | ord |
| Experimental Archaeology Factsheet | ord |
| Practical Activities | |
| • Jewellery Making | ord |
| • Chalk Carving | ord |
| • Fresco Painting | PDF |
| • Fresco Painting Supplies | ord |
| • Herbs | ord |
| • List of Herbs | ord |
| • Spinning | ord |
| • Cooking | ord |
| • Making an Iron Age Grain Store | ord |
| • Making a Mini Roundhouse | ord |
| Resources and Activity Idea Sheets | |
| • Recipes Needing No Oven! | ord |
| • Recipes for Roman Army Bread and Honey Cake | ord |
| • Selection of Recipes | ord |
| • Mesolithic Sweets | ord |
| • Recipes for a Feast! | ord |
| • Viking Pouch | PDF |
| • Roman Writing Tablet | ord |
| • Roman Board Game - Lantunculi | PDF |
| •Storytelling | ord |
| Presentations | |
| •Burial Mounds | PDF |
| •Nettle and String | PDF |
| •Getting Off to a Good Start - Introductory Activities | PDF |
| •Forensics | PDF |
| •Unlocking the Past | PDF |
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| Buildings | |
| • Roofing materials and make a model roof | PDF (CMIA) |
| Science and technology activities | |
| • Growing a crop mark in cress | PDF (CMIA) |
| • Demonstrate magnetometry | PDF (CMIA) |
| • Extract salt from (fake) urine! | PDF (CMIA) |
| • Pottery making and bonfire firing | PDF / ord |
| • Make Roman Ink | PDF / ord |
| • Roman Medicinal Plants | PDF / ord |
| • Roman Patient & Doctor Cards | PDF / ord |
| Textiles and costume | |
| • Make a human loom! | PDF (CMIA) |
| • Pin board weaving | PDF |
| • Bobbin winding | PDF |
| • Make your own dyes (1) | PDF (CMIA) |
| • Make your own dyes (2) | PDF / ord |
| • Make a Roman sandal | PDF |
| • Make a Roman bulla | PDF / ord |
| Musical Instruments | |
| • Make a shawm | PDF / ord |
| • Make panpipes | PDF / ord |
| Games | |
| • Information on making up games and icebreakers | PDF / ord |
| For more leaflets from the Creative Minds: Investigate! Archaeology (CMIA) series, see the Activities Section | |
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| Activity 1: How to carry out a graveyard survey | |
| • How to conduct an archaeological measured survey to plot the basic outline of a church sans theodolite! | PDF |
| • Further project work | PDF / ord |
| • Monument sketch record sheet | PDF |
| Activity 2: Finding and using records related to churches | |
| • Background to Census records | PDF / ord |
| • Background to Parish records | PDF / ord |
| • Using you local records office | PDF / ord |
| • Using records related to churches | PDF / ord |
| • How do you start finding out about a building? | PDF / ord |
| • The people recording form | PDF / ord |
| Activity 3: Recording and interpreting church interiors and exteriors | |
| • Handy hints when looking at churches | PDF / ord |
| • The English Parish Church: An Introduction | PDF |
| • Useful church terms | PDF / ord |
| • Typical church layout and location of features | PDF |
| • Sorting out window style dates | PDF |
| • Things to look for inside a church | PDF |
| • Comparison of pre-reformation and reformation interiors | PDF |
| • Comparing places of worship | PDF |
| Activity 4: Interpreting and recording churches through trails | |
| • Comparison timeline of churches | PDF |
| • Background to symbolism (without image) | PDF / ord |
| • Background to symbolism (with 150dpi image) | PDF / ord |
| • Symbolism images (all grayscale GIFs) | PDF / images 75dpi, 150dpi, 300dpi |
| • Heraldic design | PDF / ord |
| • Brasses and brass rubbing guidelines | PDF / ord |
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Download the activity template below, fill it in and return it to YAC HQ and we'll expand the bank of downloadable activity ideas on the website!
Thank you to all the Branches who have already shared their activity ideas!
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| • Biggar: Writing Through The Ages- series of 15 worksheets | 1. Introduction PDF 2. Paper Making PDF 3. Invisible Ink PDF 4. Sealing Letters PDF 5. Quill Pens PDF 6. Reed Pens PDF 7. Printing PDF 8. Ogham and Runes PDF 9. Picts PDF 10. Romans PDF 11. Materials to Write On PDF 12. Greeks PDF 13. Egyptians PDF 14. Cuniform PDF 15. Cave Paintings PDF |
| • Devon Exeter: Augering | ord
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| • Lancaster: Egyptian Shabti | ord
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| • Belfast: Erupting Volcanoes | ord
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| • York: Giant Nine Men's Morris | ord
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| • Kirklees: Prehistoric Clay | ord
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| • Isle of Wight: Saxon Burial Investigation | ord
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| • Sussex and Weald: Shoe Making | Activity Outline ord Shoe Template PDF |
| • St Albans: Visit from Sir Mortimer Wheeler | ord
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| • Kendal: Visit to a Lime Kiln | ord
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| • Fenland: Woad Dyeing | ord
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| • Runnymede: Herb Quiz | PDF
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| • Belfast: Macrofossils | PDF / ord |
| • Bridgend: Mapping | PDF / ord |
| • Bury St Edmunds: Ask an Archaeologist | PDF / ord |
| • Holiday: Roman Bulla | PDF / ord |
| • Leicester: Design a Medieval Village | PDF / ord |
| • North Wiltshire: Place Names | PDF / ord |
| • Oxfordshire: Photographing Artefacts | PDF / ord |
| • Runnymede: Greek Pots | PDF / ord |
| • St Albans: Tracing Anglo-Saxon Boundaries | PDF / ord |
| • Torbay: Producing a Simple Scale Plan | PDF / ord |
| • Edinburgh: Build a Castle | ord |
| • Runnymede: Cave Painting | ord |
| • Yorkshire Dales: Celtic Art | ord |
| • Bath and Bristol: Displaying Collections | ord |
| • Lancaster: Indoor Excavation | ord |
| • North Hampshire: Mediterranean Island Archaeology | ord |
| • Norwich: Mesolithic Wild Food Walk | ord |
| • Norwich: Mesolithic Sweets | ord |
| • Spelthorne: Middle Age Spread | ord |
| • Kirklees: Mini Dig | ord |
| • Manchester: Mummifying Oranges | ord |
| • Wayland: Neolithic Cooking | ord |
| • Canterbury: Roman Dining | ord |
| • Orkney: Stone Age Pigment | ord |
| • Perth: Stone Carving | ord |
| • St Albans: Street Furniture | ord |
| • Central London: Winter Celebrations | ord |
| Creative Minds: Investigate! Archaeology | |
| • Archaeologists for an Hour | PDF (60KB) |
| • Getting Dressed | PDF (97KB) |
| • Greek Writing | PDF (112KB) |
| • Historic Poo | PDF (72KB) |
| • Investigate an Object | PDF (93KB) |
| • Rot or Not? | PDF (53KB) |
| • Section or Elevation Drawing | PDF (72KB) |
| • Blast Furnace Jigsaw | PDF / ord |
| See also Leaders Weekend 2007 for more files of this series - labelled as 'CMIA'. | |
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YAC HQ have produced this list so that you can take advantage of contacts we have made. It is also an opportunity for Branches to share details of useful people and places they have discovered.
The useful contacts have been split into sections to help you find what you need more easily. The sections are;
Within each of these categories the contacts are listed by time period and location.
Download the Useful Contacts List by clicking here!
PDF version or
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Please let us know if you have any new contacts to add to the list or any other suggestions. You can now recommend a person, place or resource by filling in the Useful Contact form and emailing it to us at yac@yac-uk.org.
We hope that you find it useful!
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During office hours:
Young Archaeologists' Club HQ in York
Council for British Archaeology (CBA)
St Mary's House
66 Bootham
York YO30 7BZ
Tel: 01904 671417
Email: yac@yac-uk.org
Out of office hours or in emergencies: contact Mike Heyworth, Director of the CBA on 07793 817510
To contact individual Leaders at other YAC Branches, please visit the Branches page of the YAC website for current contact details.
Don't forget that you can also contact other YAC Leaders on the YAC Email Network. It is the place to get advice and ideas for activity sessions, and find out about training events being run by YAC HQ.
To post messages to the YAC Network, simply send your email to: yacnetwork@britarch.net
It is a members-only list, which means that you must be subscribed in order to send or receive messages. If you would like to join the list, or are unsure whether you are currently subscribed, please contact YAC HQ in York.
YAC has done some really exciting things in the past; you can read about some of them here.
The 2009 Leaders' Weekend held at Murton Park in York was a great success. You can find out what went on,
download activity ideas and read the report by clicking here.
The 2008 Leaders' Weekend took place in June at Butser Ancient Farm in Hampshire. 50 Leaders got together to explore experimental archaeology. Find out what they got up to by and download activity ideas and factsheets from the information pack by clicking here!
YAC Leader Dorothy Astbury was nominated for the Welsh Volunteer of the Year Awards 2006. Find out more and see some images of her special day by clicking here!
Newark in Nottinghamshire was invaded by loads of YAC Leaders in April 2006, for the annual conference. To find out what they got up to, just click here.
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