Indoor Archaeological Training Courses
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At Mercian we offer a variety of ‘indoor’ courses which are predominantly classroom based.
Current schools include:
This training school is designed to provide training and experience in various aspects of the post excavation process. All tuition and training will be carried out under the supervision of experienced tutors, with finds training lead by Mercian's ceramic specialist David Budge.
The course is designed to give delegates an understanding of what is involved in the post excavation process for finds, ranging from initial cleaning and processing of the finds as they come out of the ground, through to some of the specialist analysis that finds are subject to, through to illustration and preparation of the finds for publication.
The course is designed to allow delegates to gain experience of handling finds and to develop the ability to look at artefacts critically with a view to recognising the clues that give evidence of what they were used for and that can help to identify them.
The course also provides training in archaeological drawing techniques including preparing plans and /or sections for publication, and training in working with site archives to create site matrices.
Delegates will also learn archaeological GIS (Geographic Information Systems) including working with survey data, preparing maps, working with historic mapping, creating and working with 3D models.
Take your skills to the next level by joining our week long
Post-
at King’s Clipstone.
Price £250 per person
*Please note that while aspects of this course will be in-
As well as offering the best in archaeological training and support, the 2019 Field School is tailored towards enabling attendees to fulfil the requirements of the Archaeological Skills Passport.
All training will take place at the Tin Tabernacle, King John’s Palace, Kings Clipstone, Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, England.
Take your skills to the next level by joining our week long
‘Exploring Landscape Archaeology’ Course 2021
at King’s Clipstone, and around Sherwood Forest
Price £250 per person
2021 Dates:
Week of
24th -
£250 per person
Archaeological GIS training:
Delegates will work with survey data and learn how to create maps, vector layers and geo-
A Geographic Information System (GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyse, manage, and present spatial or geographic data.
Archaeologists use GIS for many things including creating maps, analysing landscapes, understanding archaeological sites, creating 3D models, viewshed analysis, presenting survey data and more.
GIS is a great way to integrate data from projects and can be used to analyse that data as well as present it in the form of maps for publication.
The images to the left include GIS being used in building analysis, surveying, map work, and the displaying of geophysical survey data.
Alongside all the above you will learn about the history and archaeology of Sherwood Forest, and also about the designed royal hunting landscape and Palace at its heart. Mercian Archaeological Services CIC run the Sherwood Forest Archaeology Project and are at the leading edge of research into this landscape of legends…
As well as offering the best in archaeological training and support, the ‘Experience Landscape Archaeology’ course is tailored towards enabling attendees to fulfil requirements of the Archaeological Skills Passport.
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2021 Dates:
Week of
25th -
£250 per person
This 5-
The course uses the legendary landscape of Sherwood Forest as the main case study, with site visits to the Sherwood Forest National Nature Reserve and other local historic landscape locations, and also includes examples from around the UK and the wider world, to enable students to experience the subject first-
The course introduces many of the methods available for examining, recording and viewing the landscape, and for reconstructing historic landscapes, including:
- topographic survey,
- geophysical survey,
- LiDAR and landscapes,
- multi-
spectral data, - historic mapping analysis,
- aerial photography,
- archaeoastronomy, and the relationship of landscapes to skyscapes.
The above will cover the theory and methodology of the various techniques above. Geophysical and topographic survey will not be undertaken on this course (please see Topographic survey courses and geophysical survey training courses if this is required). Delegates will get to work with Historic mapping data, aerial photographs, and LiDAR data sets.
The physical landscape is explored including:
- the geological formations (and geological history),
- soils,
- topography,
- rivers,
- and in particular the resultant impact these physical aspects have on subsequent settlement patterns and land-
use.
The cultural or human landscape is then studied in relation to this underlying physical landscape, including:
- settlement patterns,
- toponymic survey (place-
name studies) and what place- names reveal of the physical and cultural landscape. - villagescapes and daily life,
- Geology and the built environment,
- agricultural practices (pastoral and arable),
- the importance of different plants and their uses, and the impact on the landscape (focusing on Sherwood Forest).
Field trips identify features in the landscape as studied in the classroom and discusses how landscapes can be reconstructed from this evidence.
The course then looks at different layers of the imaged or human landscape:
- political and administrative (including Viking assembly, hunting, and Forest law as local case studies),
- human landscapes and experience,
- philosophy and landscape,
- art, poetry, literature and landscape,
- skyscapes and monuments,
- semiotics (the signs, language and symbols) of landscape,
- allegory and landscape (literary, religious and cultural -
case studies include Clipstone and the Designed medieval landscape), - legendary landscapes (including Robin Hood).
The course then looks at some of the ways archaeologists attempt to understand the subjective human experience of landscapes in the past including:
- callisthenics, and
- phenomenology of landscape
The course is located at King John's Palace in Sherwood Forest, and includes site visits to the Sherwood Forest National Nature Reserve and surrounding landscape.
Click on the links above to view each field school in turn and follow links to the individual pages to see which training course most suits your requirements and preference.
*Please note that while aspects of this course will be in-
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