Council forBritish Archaeology

Briefing

Details of additional conferences, plus a number of other events, such as courses and lectures, are given on our website or by request. This also applies to Grants.

Fieldwork The cba makes due enquiries of all parties concerned to advertise fieldwork projects in British Archaeology, but cannot accept responsibility for the operating conditions of such projects.

Marlow, Buckinghamshire Sundays until Autumn Investigating a double enclosure in Warren Wood. Site dated to medieval period from non-intrusive methods and test pitting. Min age 16. Cost £9 for membership. Contact for precise dates John Laker, tel 01628 481792, email johnlaker@thamesinternet.com, web www.archaeologyinmarlow.org.uk

Saveock Water, Cornwall 3.4.11-26.8.11 Training excavations at a multi-period site with deposits from the Mesolithic to C17th. All welcome. Cost £195 per week plus £25 lunches. Contact Jacqui Wood, tel 01872 560351, email jacqui@archaeologyonline.org, web www.archaeologyonline.org

Tetbury, Gloucestershire 18.6.11-31.10.11 (varied) Continuing excavations by Archeoscan on a multi-period site of mostly Iron Age and Roman date. Previous finds indicate a high status settlement. All levels welcome for any days. Cost £20 per day, £200 for 15 days or £275 season. Training by request. Contact Tony Roberts, mob 07901 746140, email enquiries@archeoscan.com, web www.archeoscan.com/17.html

Archaeology Live!, Hungate, York 27.6.11-16.9.11 Annual training excavations from York Archaeological Trust. Viking and Medieval period features disturbing Roman burials and cremations. Min age 16. Varied fees for day or weekly rates. Weekend courses also available. Contact yat Training Dig, tel 01904 663000, mob 07908 210026, email

It lay in the ground unnoticed for over a thousand years, and without Terry Herbert and his metal detector (aided by the Portable Antiquities Team, pictured above launching the official beer), it would still be there: but the Staffordshire hoard is now on the move, a complex find, some might feel, that leapfrogged from darkness to fame ahead of specialist analysis. If the size of the hoard, the variety of its contents and its unprecedented nature have meant that public engagement has preceded a full understanding, these characteristics have also encouraged exhibition, with trainingdig@yorkat.co.uk, web www.dighungate.com

Colvend, Dumfries and Galloway 27.6.11-25.9.11 Continuing investigations by Stewartry Archaeological Trust on prehistoric burial cairns and medieval settlements, suitable for beginners. Limited places on C13/14th Motte Hill at Ingleston, Gelston, for experienced diggers only. Training provided by arrangement. Contact Liz Penman, tel 01556 680478, lizzie@sat.org.uk, www.sat.org.uk

Kilwinning Community Archaeology Project, North Ayrshire 17.7.11–17.8.11 Free training excavations at this C12th Tironensian Abbey, with a focus on south transept, cloister and western entrance plus test-pitting the burgh’s medieval core. Suitable for beginners. Contact Susan Rees, Rathmell Archaeology Ltd, tel 01294 542848, email susan.rees@rathmell-arch.co.uk, web britarch.net/lOh (Facebook)

Boston Big Dig, Lincolnshire 18.7.11–7.8.11 A community excavation at the Market parts of the hoard on permanent display in Birmingham and Stoke-onTrent, and more items on tour. Over 40 pieces drew 21,000 visitors to Shire Hall, Stafford, in July; they are in Lichfield Cathedral until August 21 (sold out in advance), and will be in Tamworth Castle from August 27 to September 18. On October 29 “AngloSaxon Hoard: Gold from England’s Dark Ages” will open at the National Geographic Museum, Washington DC (until March 4 2012). In November National Geographic promises to feature the hoard in a book, a TV special and an issue of its magazine

Place. Open days every Wed, Sat and Sun with information, tours and children’s activities. Facebook and Twitter updates. Contact Claire, Network Archaeology Ltd, tel 01522 532621, email clairel@netarch.co.uk, web www.bostonbigdig.org

Green, Isle of Eday, Orkney 30.7.11-3.9.11 Continuing excavations by bevars at this Neolithic settlement site, for experienced diggers only. Fees inc site transport, meals and camping. Contact Mick Miles via bevars@hotmail.co.uk

Piddington, Northamptonshire 30.7.11–29.8.11 Continuing excavations at this late Iron Age settlement site and RomanoBritish Villa complex, by the Upper Nene Archaeological Society. Some training available; varied fees and options. Contact Marion Wells, tel 01494 772650, digadmin@unas.org.uk, web www.unas.org.uk

Syndale, Kent 1.8.11-19.8.11 Annual training excavations from Kent Archaeological Field School, held near

Faversham. Exploration of houses at the lost Roman town of Durolevum. Beginners’ week 8.8.11-12.8.11 at £100. Cost £35 per day or £30 members. More trips and short courses available. Contact kafs, tel 01795 532548, email info@kafs.co.uk, web www.kafs.co.uk

Roman Caerleon 4.8.11–1.9.11 Work by Cardiff University on newlydiscovered suburb of monumental buildings outside the Roman fortress, including marketplaces, warehouses, baths and possibly temples. Site tours daily except Wed; extra Bank Holiday activities. Contact Paula Jones, Community Archaeologist, via email JonesPL1@cf.ac.uk, britarch.net/lcq

Mons Pool, Nottingshire 8.8.11–19.8.11 Inviting people from Manchester area to participate at a gravel extraction site, where thousands of Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman artefacts have been uncovered. Training, accommodation and transport from Manchester provided. Suitable for beginners. Cost £100/week. Contact Brian Grimsditch via email b.grimsditch@salford.ac.uk

Under Winchelsea, East Sussex 14.8.11, 3.9.11, 11.11.11 & 1.10.11 The village boasts more than 50 medieval cellars and is rivalled only by Southampton and Norwich. Most are vaulted and date from c ad1300. Cost £5 inc guide book. Bookings tel 01797 225333, email tours@winchelsea.net, web www.winchelsea.net/tours.htm

Copped Hall, Epping, Essex 15.8.11-19.8.11 Excavations for those with experience by West Essex Archaeological Group. A destroyed Tudor period mansion with some earlier and later evidence. Cost £50 per week. Contact Pauline Dalton, tel 01992 813725, pdalton@gmail.com, web www.weag.org.uk

Staveley Hall, Derbyshire 16-20.8.11 & 23-27.8.11 Community excavations with a primary focus on a late C17th kitchen midden with large assemblages of pottery and clay pipes of regional importance expected. Free and open to all but u16s

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