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Archaeology

PRACTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY & TRAINING

 

The Society undertakes a limited range of practical work the nature of which tends to happen at short notice. Normally archaeological excavation would not be undertaken except when sites are under imminent threat of destruction. However some volunteers may be needed for local projects, which arise from time to time. We also do undertake some field walking & landscape surveying.

Bob Bruce holds the Society Register of Volunteers. Please ensure that your name is registered with him indicating activities that interest you and if you can undertake practical work at short notice.

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EXCAVATIONS 2009

Archaeological Dig at Morwellham Quay

 

VOLUNTEERS WANTED

18th July  -  2nd August 2009

This season's main excavation will be taking place from Saturday 18th July to Sunday 2nd August inclusive, and will build on the previous seven years' successful programme of excavations and building recording at this historic copper port.

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Practical Archaeology 2

Mountbatton Tower Open Day - VOLUNTEER HELPERS WANTED

Community Services, Plymouth City Council

 

We have been asked again, and agreed, to try to open Mount Batten Tower on the afternoon of Sunday 17 May - in support of the Mount Batten Centre open day. Hours 2-6pm. Free admission by ticket only - limited number groups every half hour.

This gives us a chance to try a different access arrangement. With the chance of up to 240 visitors.

I am still looking for one or two volunteers to assist - duties could include one or more of - guiding groups, acting as a 'tail gunner' for a guided party, or on-duty outside - checking tickets, chatting/giving a three minute safety briefing before entry & directing prospective visitors without tickets to the Mount Batten Centre…... Happy to rotate duties to suit.

Opening is weather dependant - continued reasonably dry spell and/or not chucking-it down on the day.

Applications welcome….

Contact:  Nigel Overton, email:   nigel.overton@plymouth.gov.uk

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Practical Archaeology Continued >>

 

 

 

Mount Folly Excavations 2009 will run from Sunday 14 June – Sunday 26 July.

 

The Mount Folly Enclosures Project is an archaeological investigation of Iron Age and Romano-British occupation of a coastal settlement in the South Hams of Devon. The project started with a small two-week investigation in 2003. Since that time it has grown to be one of the largest volunteer excavations in the south west of England.

The investigation concentrates on a group of articulated enclosures that was first recognised in aerial reconnaissance by Frances Griffith, Devon County Archaeologist, in 1989. Pot sherds recovered from the enclosure ditches during our excavations date the complex to the later Iron Age - Romano-British period. The project is run by Dr Eileen Wilkes of Bournemouth University. Further information can be found at www.mtfolly.org . Existing volunteers will have been contacted already. New volunteers (or to ask more information) should contact Eileen Wilkes direct at project@mtfolly.org