Training opportunities at Wessex Archaeology

Each year, Wessex Archaeology run a Practical Archaeology Course. Explore what has happened in previous years from the links on the right.

Training Dig 2008: Practical Archaeology Training Course at Down Farm, Sixpenny Handley

Find out what went on at the 2007 course on our Events Blog

September 1st – 5th and 8th – 12th 2008

For the last four years, Wessex Archaeology has run a series of very successful five day courses at Dr Martin Green’s farm on Cranborne Chase, “one of the most carefully studied areas in western Europe”. The Down Farm landscape includes parts of the Dorset Cursus and Ackling Dyke, Bronze Age barrows and Roman and Iron Age buildings. It is a rich, multi-period site in a wonderful setting.

The course will include instruction and practice in site surveying, excavation, recording (the production of both written records and scale drawings) and finds processing.

During the week there will be lectures and workshops on environmental sampling, pottery analysis, faunal remains (bones) and surveying techniques.

The course is suitable both for beginners and those with more experience. Past students have included interested amateurs, undergraduates and sixth formers and have come from as far away as Australia!

The on-site facilities are very good and accommodation (bed and breakfast or campsite) is available nearby.

Visit 2007 Training Dig to read about last year’s course, see photographs and listen to podcasts of the activities.

5 day Practical Archaeology Training Course:

£190 including VAT waged, £140 including VAT unwaged.

For more information and booking details please contact:

Hilda Young, PA to the Chief Executive, Wessex Archaeology, Portway House,

Old Sarum Park, Salisbury, SP4 6EB

Telephone: 01722 343444

Email: h.young@wessexarch.co.uk

Or

Print out a copy of the Booking Form (PDF) and return with your payment to the address above.

We also have a flier available for you to print out if you wish to pass on the details about the course to others.