Durham County Council's Archaeology Department 3rd Annual Conference
Saturday 10 March 2007, 9:50am-4.30pm
Durham County Council's Archaeology Department will be holding its 3rd Annual Conference. The day will offer talks on recent archaeological discoveries, community excavations, recording and research. There will be talks on the following subjects:
• Hannah Wiggens, Durham County Council - County Durham Historic Landscape Characterisation project
• David Mason, Durham County Council - The Peter Scott excavations at Piercebridge Roman Fort
• Martin Roberts, English Heritage - Middridge Grange - historic farm building and Grade 1 listed building
• Richard Annis, Archaeological Serives Durham University - Excavations at East Park Sedgefield 2006
• Richard Hewitt, Archaeological Research Services - Archaeological Assessment of the aggregate producing areas of the County Durham Magnesium Limestone plateau
• Robin Taylor-Wilson, Pre-Construct Archaeology - Roman Chester-le-Street
• David Butler, Local Historian - Aykley Heads House, Durham
Tickets must be purchased in advance and are now on sale. Tickets cost £8.50 (the cost has increased slightly this year due to increases in catering costs) and will include a buffet lunch and tea and coffee in the morning and afternoon. There will be stalls in the Durham Room during the morning tea break and lunch which will include local historical and archaeological societies as well as bookstalls.
http://www.durham.gov.uk/durhamcc/usp.nsf/pws/Archaeology+2001+-+Archaeology+News+and+Events
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Treasure hunters – the new heroes of national heritage
Members of the public unearthed 57,566 ancient objects last year, according to the British Museum — an increase of 45 per cent on 2005. The items included a spectacular Viking hoard of 20 silver bracelets.
Two reports published yesterday show how finds by people walking, gardening, farming or actively searching for treasure provide a wealth of information about our past.
David Lammy, the Culture Minister, described metal detector users as "the unsung heroes of the UK's heritage".
The Times 18/01/07
more here
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2552491.html
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Materialitas: Working Stone, Carving Identity March 9-10th 2007
The UCD School of Archaeology and Humanities Institute of Ireland, University College Dublin present a conference on the materiality of stone, with an evening reception and keynote address by Richard Bradley on Friday 9th March, and papers by invited
Speakers including specialists on stone monuments, lithic objects, rock art and quarrying, on Saturday 10th March.
Confirmed speakers include Lara Bacelar Alves, Stefan Bergh, Gabriel Cooney, Mark Edmonds, Andy Jones, Katina Lillios, Blaze O'Connor, Muiris O'Sullivan, Yvan Pailler, Colin Richards, Chris Scarre, Annelou Van Gijn, Aaron Watson, and Chris Gosden (Discussant). We welcome anyone with an interest in people's engagement with stone, and more broadly in the theme of approaches to material culture, to attend.
Further details on registration, getting to UCD, maps, eating out, and accommodation are available on the conference website: http://www.ucd.ie/archaeology/materialitas
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Foxrush Farm Archaeological Open Day
- guided tours
- have-a-go dig sessions
- storytelling
- re-enactment group
- make a coil pot
- iron age costumes...and much more
In 2002, the first archaeological excavation took place, followed by further digs in 2003, 2004 and 2005.
The 2006 excavation begins in September including two weeks of school visits followed by the family open day on Sunday 1st October between 10am and 4pm.
Details here
http://www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk/Leisur1.nsf/0/10B84ADB4C00F87F80256CC3004A2634?OpenDocument
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Barrows, Bones and Bunkers!
Tees Archaeology Dayschool 2006
The Conference Centre, Ebsworth Building, University of Durham, Stockton Campus
Saturday 4th November 2006
10.15am - 4.15pm
Topics will include
Rock Art in Cleveland and North East Yorkshire:context and chronology.
Street House - Iron Age, Romano British and Saxon finds.
The Roman villa at Ingleby Barwick.
Grave news from Norton: Death and burial in the middle Anglo-Saxon period.
Medieval Hartlepool - the Aphrodite of the North.
The Great Ayton Community Archaeology Project.
Second World War pillboxes of Teesside.
For booking details contact
Tees Archaeology 01429 523455
An on-line booking form is available here
http://www.teesarchaeology.com/whatson/documents/booking_form.pdf
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Bronze Age Forum - Dublin
The next meeting of the Bronze Age Forum will be hosted by the School of Archaeology, University College Dublin. The meeting is open to anyone with an interest in the Bronze Age archaeology of Ireland, Britain and our nearest Continental neighbours.
Date 17-19 November 2006
Further information regarding the meeting will be made available soon at: www.ucd.ie/archaeology/groups/BronzeAgeForum
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Rock Art Meeting 2006
" The 2006 Rock Art Meeting (RAM'06) is sheduled for
Sunday 4th of June 2006 in Wooler, Northumberland
You are most welcome to take part in this meeting. Bring camera's, childern, wellies, lunch packet, water and good weather! After coffees between 10.30 and 11.00 AM at 'The Mother of all B&B's'; Weetwood Farm Guesthouse, West Weetwood, Wooler NE71 6AQ, phone: 01668 281497 (see: map) we've planned to visit the rock art sites of Gled Law, Buttony and West Horton and maybe a surprise site as dessert."
http://groups.msn.com/RockArtintheBritishLandscape/rameetings.msnw
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The historic environment of the Yorkshire Dales
22.4.06
A day school organised by the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority in association with the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 10am–4:30pm at Grassington Town Hall, Grassington. The Yorkshire Dales have some of the best preserved and extensive historic landscapes in the country. Speakers at this day school will discuss some of the results of recent archaeological and historical survey and research. Also host to poster displays and book stalls. The fee includes refreshments but not lunch. For more information contact the organisers at National Park Centre, Hebden Road, Grassington, Skipton BD23 5LB, tel 01756 752774, email herinfo@yorkshiredales.org.uk. The cost is £10/£7.50.
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Ancient man's lost secrets on test
Technology from the 21st century will be used to unlock the past to one of Yorkshire's most important archaeological finds from the Bronze Age.
Gristhorpe Man, one of the best preserved examples of human remains buried in a hollow oak tree trunk, will leave Scarborough's Rotunda Museum today in specially constructed boxes for Bradford University's Department of Archaeological Sciences.
The latest technology will be used to try to extract samples from the remains for analysis to establish how the Bronze Age man died as well as gathering more detail about his lifestyle and diet.
The skeleton still has some remains of the man's brain and teeth which have been preserved since he died 3,500 years ago.
Tests will also be conducted on an animal skin the corpse was wrapped in as well as a whalebone and bronze dagger and food which was buried in the coffin.
Full article here
http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=1084&ArticleID=1257193
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Govt's chief archaeologist 'has no excavation experience'
Serious questions have reportedly emerged about the qualifications of the Government's chief archaeologist.
Reports this morning said Brian Duffy, who advised the Government on matters such as the controversial Tara motorway scheme, got the job in July 2003 ahead of candidates with superior qualifications and experience.
The reports said Mr Duffy had a general BA degree in archaeology and had no track record of archaeological excavations or publications.
The latest revelation follows the recent controversy surrounding the Government's chief science adviser, who was moved to another job when it emerged that he received his PhD from a US university known to sell such qualifications over the internet.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=190268270&p=y9xz69x85&n=190269156
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Cave paintings reveal Ice Age artists
Britain's first cave art is more than 12,800 years old, scientific testing has shown. Engravings of a deer and other creatures at Creswell Crags, in Derbyshire, have proved to be genuine Ice Age creations, and not modern fakes, as some had feared.
The engravings were found in 2003 at two caves, Church Hole and Robin Hood's Cave, which lie close together in the Creswell gorge. Palaeolithic occupation deposits dating to the last Ice Age were excavated there in 1875-76, but the art remained unnoticed. Although the most notable finds were from 15,000-13,000 years ago, even older tools were noted, some dating to the Middle Palaeolithic between 60,000 and 40,000 years ago, others a few millennia later.
Read the full article here
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,61-1910329,00.html
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£24k Grant to Bring Eden Neolithic Heritage to Life
Eden District Council's Penrith Museum is celebrating news that they have been awarded over £24,000 from the Local Heritage Initiative, a scheme run by the Countryside Agency on behalf of the Heritage Lottery Fund and Nationwide Building Society.
The funding will allow the Museum to run a series of events during 2006 aimed at broadening awareness of, and accessibility to, prehistoric heritage in the Vale of Eden. This area is a major focus for Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments, including stone circles, henges, burial cairns and rock art sites. The project aims to forge new interest in these monuments that have survived for over four thousand years, and which can still be seen so dramatically across the varied landscapes of the Vale of Eden.
Read it all here
http://www.eden.gov.uk/main.asp?page=3972
Thanks to Kate Sharpe
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Fire and the Archaeology of Fylingdales Moor, North Yorkshire
Whitby Museum, Pannett Park, Whitby, North Yorkshire
Thursday 1st December 2005
A seminar, sponsored by English Heritage: Fire and the Archaeology of Fylingdales Moor, North Yorkshire
This seminar will review the responses to the needs of ecology and archaeology on 2.5 square kilometres of moorland on the coast of north-east Yorkshire, the subject of a disastrous fire in September 2003. The morning session will discuss what has been done to record the archaeology revealed by the fire, and how this has been integrated with efforts to safeguard the archaeology and regenerate the ecology of the moor. The afternoon session with consider continuing management and research requirements, including a discussion of the now-famous carved slab, and what the wider lessons of the project are.
Draft Programme:
MORNING: RESPONSES TO THE FIRE (chair - TBC)
10.00 Coffee
10.30 Welcome
10.40 Introoduction - Fylingdales Moor before the fire (Graham Lee (NYMNPA)
10.55 Introduction - aftermath of the fire: archaeological management issues (Neil Redfern, EH)
11.10 Introduction - aftermath of the fire: ecological management issues (Rachel Pickering, NYMNPA)
11.25 The application of air photography to the burnt moorland (Jane Stone, EH)
11.45 Detailed survey and its results (Al Oswald, EH)
12.05 Walk-over survey and its results (Blaise Vyner)
12.25 Rock art on Fylingdales Moor (Paul Brown/Graeme Chappell)
12.40 New approaches to recording rock art (Paul Bryan, EH)
12.55 Summing up (Neil Redfern)
13.00 Lunch - a buffet lunch will be available - please book your place (see below)
AFTERNOON: TIDYING UP THE ARCHAEOLOGY AND ECOLOGY (chair - Graham Lee, NYMNPA)
13.45 Introduction - The land-owner's perspective
13.55 Overview of the archaeology of Fylingdales Moor (Blaise Vyner)
14.10 The longer-term ecological ambitions (Rachel Pickering)
14.25 The Stoupe Brow monument - opportunity and dilemma (Neil Redfern/Blaise Vyner)
15.00 Discussion of further research requirements led by Neil Redfern
16.00 Conclusion
Please book in advance by e-mailing Blaise Vyner at blaise@meander.demon,co,uk or writing to 16 College Square, Stokesley, North Yorkshire TS9 5DL. If directions or other information are needed please inquire at the time of booking.
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Archaeology in the Lake District 2005 - Day Conference
26th November 2005
The annual archaeology conference at the Lakes School , Troutbeck Bridge, Windermere.
Including -
Exploring Lower Eskdale.
Re-Opening of Leverswater mine, Coniston
Bales sites smelting in Yorkshire & Cumbria
Rock Art in Cumbria: Context & Connections
Monks Farmers & Raiders - The early Medieval Period in the Lake District.
Conservation & Interpretation at Force Crag Mine.
Tickets £8 including tea & coffee. £14 with lunch
Avilable from The Lake District National Park Authority.
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The Boyle Family at The Henry Moore Institute
The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds is bringing together a glittering array of archaeologists, art historians and sculptors, to consider the overlap between sculpture and archaeology. Their motif is the Boyle Family's 'Study of Broken Up Concrete and Earth' (2002-3). Mark Boyle and Joan Hills, while making psychedelic stage sets for the band Soft Machine in the 1960s, began a series of resin ground casts-eerily like the bottom of excavation trenches-that continues today with the participation of their two artist children. A film about the Boyle Family will be screened at 'Object-Excavation-Intervention', 3-5 June. Tickets from Liz Aston, tel 0113 246 7467, email liz@henry-moore.ac.uk
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