Adventures in Archaeology

Adventures in Archaeology
Issue 10 Past Horizons Online Journal of volunteer archaeology and training.
November 2009
Past Horizons now celebrating its tenth issue, consists of 48 pages of free to read content. The main articles cover current archaeological excavations and conservation around the world. We also have the much loved contribution from Annie Evans our very own ‘Dig [...]

OPEN ARCHIVE – a new web based system for accessing our past

Open Archive collect the records of the past to present and share them with everybody.

CRICKLEY HILL REUNION 2009

CRICKLEY HILL REUNION 2009
Saturday, 4th July 2009 marks the 40th anniversary of the start of archaeological excavations at Crickley Hill, Gloucestershire. More than 3,000 volunteers from around the world worked on the site between 1969 and 1994 – 25 successive seasons of digging, directed throughout by Dr Philip Dixon, former Reader in Archaeology at the [...]

Cousland Big Dig : day 4

WEll it was time to fill in trenches 1 and 3 in some severe weather…  but at least I have found that my body is stil up to the task of shoveling spoil and returfing! 
We opened up the castle trench, and have uncovered a rubble layer that stops sharply along a line.  This could represent [...]

Cousland Big Dig day 3

Our Historian Louise Yeoman has been working tirelessly, and on Wednesday will be presenting findings to the group, as well as showing them how to study documentary evidence.  One amazing fact that she has pointed us to is that Mary Queen of Scots mounted her horse near to Carberry Hill East Lothian. in 1547 after [...]

Archaeology of the Thornborough Area – Website

Archaeology of the Thornborough Area – Archaeological excavation at Ladybridge Farm
An excellent use of web in the planning process .. they (agree with the project or not) -
have shown how to use technology to provide information, so it shows it can (on a long term project) be part of the process – and should be [...]