Medieval building materials workshop with Ian Betts from the Museum of London Archaeology.
Wednesday 2nd December 10.30-3.30 at Shorne Woods Country Park Visitor Centre (DA12 3HX).
This session, generously funded by a KAS fieldwork committee grant, will cover all types of medieval ceramic building materials, from peg tiles to decorated floor tiles, plus stone roofing material.
Contact Andrew if you’re interested in attending.
Thousands of archaeological sites along England’s coast and tidal estuaries are being destroyed by extreme weather, rising sea levels and tidal scour. CITiZAN, the Coastal and Intertidal Zone Archaeological Network, is the first national community-led project to tackle the alarming threat to our heritage. Today, CITiZAN is calling for an army of volunteers to help survey and monitor these nationally-important but vulnerable archaeological sites before they disappear.
One of the largest community archaeology projects in the country, taking in 5,600 miles of coastline over 500 miles of tidal foreshore, CITiZAN runs free community-based training, building a network of volunteers with the skills and systems needed to survey and monitor threatened sites. Armed with tape measures, buckets and mobile phones, volunteers create standardised records of exposed archaeological sites.
Hosted by MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), the CITiZAN project has been awarded £1.4m from the Heritage Lottery Fund, enhanced by the National Trust and The Crown Estate’s stewardship programme, together with support from Historic England.
The three-year project operates across England from regional centres. The Council for British Archaeology are proud to be supporting the project in York, with MOLA in London, and the Nautical Archaeology Society in Portsmouth.
For more information about CITiZAN and local training opportunities and events visit the CITiZAN website.
A day of lectures on the topic of Anglo-Saxon Kent is being held by the Kent Archaeological Society on Sat 31 October 2015, from 10 am to 5 pm. The lectures will be held at:
Rutherford College,
Lecture Theatres 1 and 2,
University of Kent
Canterbury, CT2 7NX.
Talks will cover Anglo-Saxon finds in the Kent Archaeological Society collection; the settlement at Church Whitfield and colonisation of the east Kent downs; thought’s on St Augustine’s landing place; the Meads cemetery, Sittingbourne; discoveries at Lyminge; and St Peter’s cemetery, Thanet.
Tickets £20 (KAS members £15) – includes tea/coffee.
Please make cheques payable to Kent Archaeological Society and send, with a SAE, to:
Mrs Shiela Broomfield,
8 Woodview Crescent,
Hildenborough,
Tonbridge, TN11 9HD
For further enquiries please email:
membership@kentarchaeology.org.uk
Tel: (01732) 838698.
Programme and application form K.A.S. Anglo-Saxon Conference 2015
This year we made a serious attempt to tidy the shed where all the gear is kept. With that in mind one of our volunteers, Roger, has constructed some fabulous stands for the tools. How did we ever manage without them?
For the past five years a small dig has been going on in the village of Keycol, near Sittingbourne. Roman material was being dug up on a private property in the area and the owners contacted Andrew Mayfield to initiate further investigation. Numerous test pits brought up Roman ceramics and coins; a longer trench revealed itself to be a dump of broken pottery; and a separate trench (ended up as 4 x 2 metres x 1 m deep) revealed more Roman material and a probable pebble floor with an oven structure. In Spring 2016 excavation will continue with study of the oven and its surrounds.
