Archaeological Training Field School:
This course is suitable for all levels from beginner to experienced digger.
We cover the Core Skills of the Archaeological Skills Passport:
Handtools (Trowel etc); Handtools (Spade, Mattock etc); Site Formation Processes; Stratigraphic Excavation; Context Sheet Recording; Site Photography; Site Grid and Trench Layout; Dumpy Level and Staff; Archaeological Planning & Section Drawing; Site Safety.
We also provide lessons in: Finds Processing; Pottery identification; Finds handling; Finds processing; History of Ceramics lectures and much more…
Field Days include a lunchtime sandwich.
All techniques are taught and experienced throughout the week, a mixture of classroom sessions and hands-on training from our Archaeological experts.
For more information about Sherwood Forest Archaeological Training Field School or the excavations at Bainbridge, or Welby please see; https://mercian-as.co.uk/fieldschool.html
About the site
The Sherwood Forest Archaeology Training Field School focuses on the medieval hunting lodge and palatial enclosure of the King’s Houses, now known as King John’s Palace, and the designed landscape that surrounded it.
King John’s Palace was the Royal Heart of Sherwood Forest in the Medieval period.
The site was visited by all 8 kings from Henry II to Richard II, with King John possibly holding a proto-parliament there in the early 13th century and Edward I holding Parliament there in 1290.
As part of the field school attendees will have the opportunity to learn all about Sherwood Forest, Robin Hood, outlaws, foresters, the landscape of Sherwood Forest in medieval times, the forest law, courts, offences and judiciary, the Palace at Clipstone, monasteries, chapels and hermitages, hunting parks, Nottingham Castle, Sheriffs and much much more about life in Medieval Sherwood Forest…
Price:
£450 per person, or £350 per student (in full time education 18 and under, Student NUS card holder or international equivalent*, Distance Learning etc)
