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Friday 16 January 2015

We are sponsoring the Rescue Dig of the Year award at Current Archaeology Live!

Current Archaeology Live is taking place on February 27th and 28th at Senate House, University of London.  It will be a highly entertaining and stimulating couple of days with  lectures and displays by world-leading archaeologists including: Andrew Reynolds, Helen Hammerow, Ian Hodder, Martin Biddle, Chris Stringer, and many more!

Tickets are £85 for subscribers of the magazine and £130 for non-subscribers.


We are sponsoring the award for Rescue Dig of the Year – for which the contenders are:
  • The Happisburgh Project
  • The many faces of Silbury Hill
  • Auldhume
  • Cumwhitton cemerary
  • Roman Inveresk


 May suppliers – including us – will be displaying their wares at the Fair.  Please come along and say hello and you will have the chance to win a prize!!


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Thursday 15 January 2015

Inside the mind of an archaeologist



I believe that this originally came from Past Horizons, but I found it on Peabodyslament.

Don’t know about the daydream about finding the lost jungle city – more likely raising the funds to carry on for another season if I remember correctly!



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Wednesday 14 January 2015

The crowd-sourcing web project bringing amateur and professional archaeologists together


The launch of MicroPasts by UCL and the British Museum seems like a great plan to connect some of the areas of archaeology which traditionally avoid eachother.  Based on the successful South African model of crowdcrafting we should see many important and successful collaborations taking off across the archaeological sector.

From the article:

With only limited funds and time, professional archaeologists consistently struggle to protect and interpret the UK's vast array of archaeological finds and resources. Yet there are huge pools of amateur groups and volunteers who are not only passionate but also skilled and knowledgeable about archaeology in the UK.

Now a new web platform called MicroPasts has been produced in a collaboration between University College London (UCL) and the British Museum to connect institutions and volunteers so that they can create, fund and work on archaeological projects together.




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