ARCLAND Conference, Dublin, 9-10th May 2013

Watershed Landscape Project Awarded Laureate and Needs Your Vote for Public Choice Award!
The HLF and LEADER funded Watershed Landscape Project (http://www.watershedlandscape.co.uk) is excited to announce that it has been awarded a Laureate in the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards 2013 (http://www.europanostra.org/laureates-2013/). The 30 winners, across four categories, were selected from nearly 200 nominated projects. The Project is the only UK winner in the ‘Education, Training and Awareness-raising’ category, placing the heritage of the South Pennines and the work of its volunteers firmly on the European stage.

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Of the 30 winning projects, six will be named as Grand Prix Laureates at the award ceremony in Athens and one of the winners will receive the Public Choice Award, based on an online poll conducted by Europa Nostra.

Please register your vote for the Watershed Landscape Project at: http://vote.europanostra.org/ (please note that you will be asked for three choices and can only vote for ONE UK Laureate).

“The Jury thought the South Pennines Watershed Landscape a most imaginative project for raising awareness of a rich natural and archaeological heritage. Impressive in scale and multidisciplinary in approach, it tells fascinating stories, ensuring sustainable protection of the cultural landscape and enhancing regional development. It has turned a once-disregarded area into a popular destination, attracting wide interest among the local population, from children to a range of ethnic groups. A high sandard of academic research was matched by extensive publicity through diverse popular channels.”


Watershed Landscape Project awarded Laureate in the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards 2013 (click here for info.) One winner will receive the Public Choice Award, based on an online poll conducted by Europa Nostra. Please register your vote for the Watershed Landscape Project here. Deadline - 26th May.

Quote:THE last family to live in Priory Orchard, which stands on a site where skeletons were recently unearthed, claims the house is haunted.

Chelsea Whiteman, 22, contacted the Surrey Advertiser after reading about the discovery of human bones under a car park in Godalming’s Station Road two weeks ago.

The discovery was made during routine archaeological surveys in advance of a Waverley Borough Council affordable housing development, with workers stumbling upon a number of skeletons which are thought to be human.

Miss Whiteman, who works at Scully Scully hair salon in the High Street, said her family lived there for six months while their current house was extended.

During that time she said they had a number of strange experiences, which she believes were supernatural. She also suffered recurring dreams of a person being buried at the house.

She said: “I have seven brothers and four sisters, and while living at the house we experienced some very strange things.

Bamburgh, fortress palace of the Anglo-Saxon Kings of Northumbria, has been continuously occupied for more than 3,000 years. Since 1996 this legacy has been investigated by archaeologists, students, and volunteers participating in the Bamburgh Research Project’s (BRP) annual excavations.


But now this work is under threat. Because of rising costs and the rash of funding cuts for Arts and Heritage across the United Kingdom this predominantly student funded project now needs your help to survive.


http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/...ur-support

To sponsor
http://www.sponsume.com/project/archaeol...ch-project

Wondering if you can help with a query about Anthrax?


A colleague was asking about guidelines and testing, but I wasn't sure what action they should take.


Is this usually carried out by archaeologists and if so how?


I've read the 1999 English Heritage guidelines and it says not to test, but to gear up for prevention of infection. Is this still the correct procedure for buildings and burials?


Any help would be great,

The Witch is dead.

"nvr fgt, nvr fgv".

hi everyone, I've worked in both Scotland and England and have noticed that very little trench bed cleaning happens in Scotland. I think that this is wrong and am trying to argue the case that trench cleaning should be more routine in Scotland, can colleagues in England please give examples of what is potentially lost without bed cleaning?


I've also assumed that most places in England still do this.....is this still the case?
thanks

Anyone else noticed the article in the latest edition (#1337) of Private Eye on page 28 under the title "ARCHAEOLOGY: A THING OF THE PAST"? Sums up the situation rather neatly.

[h=2]Peter Drewett (1947-2013)[/h] 5 April 2013

Institute staff, students, friends and colleagues will be saddened to hear of the death of Peter Drewett on 1 April.
Peter Drewett was an integral member of the Institute of Archaeology for many years. He set up and directed the Sussex Archaeological Field Unit (now Archaeology South-East) from 1973-91 and was Head of the Department of Prehistory at the Institute of Archaeology from 1991-93. He established the Institute’s Experimental Archaeology fieldcourse for new undergraduate students (affectionately known as 'PrimTech') which still takes place today.
Peter monitored, supervised and directed the excavation of some of the UK’s most important prehistoric and historic monuments throughout the 1960s and from 1970-73 was an Assistant Inspector of Ancient Monuments. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1977 and was also an elected founder member of the Institute of Field Archaeologists (1983). He received his PhD in Prehistoric Archaeology from the Institute in 1986.

Alongside his UK-based contribution to heritage, Peter steered governments on archaeology and cultural heritage issues overseas, including the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Barbados and Hong Kong.
His impressive publication record included more than nine books on UK archaeology, Caribbean archaeology and his bestseller academic book entitled Field Archaeology, which has had multiple reprints.
Peter conducted his academic career with an exceptional parallel commitment to public duty, both at a community level – for example as Chair and then President of the Sussex Archaeological Society as well as in public education and at a national and international level - as an Advisor on Public Policy both in the UK and abroad. In all of his projects he actively involved local volunteers and gave numerous public lectures while his contribution to training both UK and overseas field archaeologists should not be underestimated.
Peter left the Institute, after 31 years, in 2004 to take up the post of Professor of Archaeology at the University of Sussex and was Emeritus Professor in their Centre for Community Engagement at the time of his death.
As one of Peter’s Institute colleagues has indicated:

• Peter Drewett was an exceptional and wide reaching academic who brought his knowledge to the support of the wider community in providing education opportunities…and impacting upon public heritage management and policy in local, national and international contexts. This commitment was maintained tirelessly throughout his life.
  

Firstly, I did contact admin about posting this but have heard nothing so assume it's OK. If not, please delete.

I am an archaeologist who is also a qualified bookkeeper. I have a few archaeologists for whom I do self assessment tax returns (you know those end of year faffs that you can't do because you're shacked up in the middle of nowhere without access to a computer or running water...).

I can do these for anyone who needs them done - please PM me here.

Richard