King John’s Palace Boundary Ditch 2012
July 2012 (completed)
Clipstone, Nottinghshire.
Excavation
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Some example Mercian Archaeological Services CIC Projects - We are currently working with many groups on other projects. If you want to discuss your project idea and see it listed here please email us at info@mercian-as.co.uk
St. Edwin’s Chapel Fieldwalking and Geophysical Magnetic Survey 2014
Aug 2014
Clipstone, Nottinghamshire.
Fieldwalking
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Archaeological training Field School, King John’s Palace 2014
Aug 25-29 & Sept 1-5 2014
Clipstone, Nottinghamshire.
Open Excavation
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Kings Clipstone Village Project 2013
Feb 2013
Clipstone, Nottinghamshire.
Mercian Archaeological Services volunteers and community members excavated test pits around the village of Clipstone in Nottinghamshire, to investigate the development of the village in the Medieval Period.
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King John’s Palace test pits, mapping, landscape analysis, topographic survey
August 2013
Clipstone, Nottinghamshire.
Test Pitting, mapping, topographic survey, 3D reconstruction.
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Robin Hood’s Village Dig Phase 2, 2014
October 26th-31st
Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire.
Test pitting project to investigate the development of the village of Edwinstowe.
Free volunteer dig Click here for more info.
Geophysical Magnetic Survey at King John’s Palace 2014
Aug 18-21 2014
Clipstone, Nottinghamshire.
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Robin Hood’s Village Dig 2014
July 14th-25th
Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire.
Test pitting project to investigate the development of the village of Edwinstowe.
Free volunteer dig Click here for more info.
This project was part sponsored by kind donations from:
Burton Road Community Excavation
July 14th-25th
Ticknall Derbyshire.
Mercian Archaeological Services and members of the Ticknall Archaeological Research
Group and volunteers undertook a Community Archaeology Excavation in the garden of a property in Ticknall in South Derbyshire.
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The Friends of Thynghowe: Forgotten Heritage of Birklands
April 2014
Budby, Nottinghamshire.
Archaeological site consultancy and excavation.
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Kings Clipstone Historic Building Recording 2013
Feb 2013
Clipstone, Nottinghamshire.
James Wright undertook a historic Building Survey of Arundel and Brammer Cottages in the village of Clipstone.
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Heath End Pottery Kiln Excavation 2013
15th - 205th May 2013
Heath End, Ashby -de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire.
Mercian Archaeological Services and members of the Ticknall Archaeological Research Group excavated a post- Medieval Kilns site.
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Hilton Village Project 2013
May 2013
Hilton, Derbyshire.
Mercian Archaeological Services, archaeological volunteers, villagers and members of the Dove Valley Community Archaeology Group excavated test pits around the village of Hilton in South Derbyshire.
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This project was part sponsored by kind donations from:
Discover King John’s Palace 2015
July 2015
King’s Clipstone, Nottinghamshire.
Clipstone, Nottinghamshire.
Community Excavation
Free volunteer dig 7th- 25th July 2015.
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Clients /Partners /Funding:
Thynghowe ‘Court Circle’ Magnetometer Survey 2015
Budby, Warsop, Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire.
Geophysical Magnetic Fluxgate Gradiometer Survey.
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Does the Heritage of the Welbeck Estate Include A King Killed At Cuckney ?
Oct- Nov 2015
Cuckney, Nottinghamshire.
Geophysical Surveys and open days
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The Vikings of Sherwood: Investigating the Assembly Site of Thynghowe 2015-16
FREE Archaeological Excavation Field School April 2016
Birklands Wood, Nottinghamshire.
Excavation to investigate earthworks at Thynghowe
Free volunteer dig. Click here for more info
Archaeological training Field School, King John’s Palace 2015 Aug 10-14 & 17-21 2015
Clipstone, Nottinghamshire.
Open Excavation, Archaeological Training Field School
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Mapping Medieval Sherwood Forest
Creation of an interactive map of the medieval landscape of Sherwood Forest
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Ground Penetrating Radar Survey at King John’s Palace Phase, 2015 & 2016
May 2015
Clipstone, Nottinghamshire.
Geophysical Survey looking for the boundaries and built environment of the medieval royal palace.
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Ashby Bath Grounds - Improved Accessibility and Community Heritage Project, 2016.
FREE Archaeological Geophysical Survey and Topographic Survey Field School April 2016
Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire.
Survey of part of the former Bath Ground in Ashby
Free volunteer project. Dates to be announced soon.
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Archaeological training Field School, King John’s Palace 2016
August 8th - 12th & 22nd -26th 2016
Clipstone, Nottinghamshire.
Open Excavation, Archaeological Training Field School
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Recording Locks on the Grantham Canal
For Canals & River Trust with the Grantham Canal Society.
Ongoing
Woolsthopre by Belvoir, Lincolnshire.
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St Helen’s Church Survey Ashby de la Zouch
July 2017. Ground Penetrating Radar and Topographic Survey of St Helen’s Church Vaults Ashby de la Zouch
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Archaeological training Field School, King John’s Palace 2017
July & August 2017
Clipstone, Nottinghamshire.
Open Excavation, Archaeological Training Field School
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Clipstone Peel Archaeology Project - Part 1
October - December 2017
Topographic Survey, Clipstone, Nottinghamshire.
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“Scirwuda- Mapping the Greenwood”:
Place-names, Ghost and Shadow woods of Sherwood Forest Project
Upcoming survey project of place-names and ecology
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St Mary’s Norton- Cuckney Church Survey
Photogrammetric survey and reconstruction of medieval wall paintings in ST Mary’s Church Norton Cuckney.
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The Sherwood Forest National Nature Reserve Archaeology Survey
Level 1 & Level 2 survey including LiDAR Ground-truthing of Birklands and Bihaugh Woods and Budby South Forest.
2018 onwards
Edwinstowe & Budby, Nottinghamshire.
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Bainbridge Archaeology Project, Wensleydale, North Yorkshire
Archaeological project investigating this multi-period site centred on a late Bronze Age fort, set in the hearth of James Herriot’s beautiful Wensleydale valley.
2018 - ongoing.
Bainbridge & Askrigg, Wensleydale, North Yorkshire.
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The Cistercians of Rufford Project: Settlement Development, Dynamics and Desertion.
2013 onwards
Investigating the lands and settlements of Rufford Abbey
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Sherwood Forest Environmental Survey
Long term project undertaking environmental surveys to understand the development of the Sherwood Forest landscape
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The Sherwood Villages Project: Settlement Development in the Forest
2013 onwards.
Long-term research project using historic mapping, test pitting, and other methods to investigate the development of settlements in Sherwod Forest.
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Archaeological training Field School, King John’s Palace 2018
August 2018
Clipstone, Nottinghamshire.
Open Excavation, Archaeological Training Field School
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The Sherwood Forest LiDAR Project
Having collated all 1m, 0.5m and 0.25m LiDAR for the Sherwood Forest area into a GIS; this project analyses LiDAR data for archaeological remains and utilises ground-truthing surveys to test the data set.
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Phase 2 Warriors through the Landscape,
2018
Cuckney, Nottinghamshire.
Excavation at Cuckney Castle, topographic survey of water meadows system, LiDAR survey and more…
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Sherwood Heath Archaeology Survey
Level One walkover survey of Sherwood Heath with LiDAR ground-truthing.
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Thoresby Estate Archaeology Survey
Level One walkover survey of Thoresby Estate with LiDAR ground-truthing.
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