SEDGEFORD HISTORICAL  AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH PROJECT

SHARP 2007 PROSPECTUS

Easter Activities

Summer Day Courses
Facilities and Course Fees
Download 2007 Application Form

 

SHARP DIARY 2007

Season dates
Sunday 1st April – Friday 13th April Easter post-excavation work and Field Walking
Sunday 8th July – Friday 17th August Summer excavation

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Sunday 29th July SHARP OPEN DAY
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Week courses start days (all week courses Sunday 8.30 am to Friday 5.00 pm)

Sunday 8th July........Basic Excavation and Recording Techniques

Sunday 15th July.......Basic Excavation and Recording Techniques

Sunday 15th July.......Archaeology of Human Remains: Introductory

Sunday 22nd July.......Basic Excavation and Recording Techniques

Sunday 22nd July.......Further Studies of Human Remains

Sunday 29th July.......Basic Excavation and Recording Techniques

Sunday 29th July.......Artefacts and Ecofacts

Sunday 5th August......Basic Excavation and Recording Techniques

Sunday 5th August......Archaeology of Human Remains: Introductory

Sunday 12th August.....Investigating archaeological landscapes
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Day courses (meet 8.20am Sundays and week days, 9am Saturdays)

Sunday 8th July and Monday 9th July.......Animal Bones in Archaeology: an Introduction

Saturday 14th July.......The Geology of North-West Norfolk

Sunday 15th July and Monday 16th July.......Archaeology is not just digging

Tuesday 17th July.......Anglo-Saxon history: Sedgeford in context

Sunday 22nd July.......Basic Archaeoastronomy

Monday 23rd July.......Introduction to Landscape Archaeology

Tuesday 24th July.......Basic Surveying

Tuesday 24th July.......An Introduction to Pottery Analysis

Saturday 28th July.......Cooking up an Anglo-Saxon feast

Wednesday 1st August.......Small Finds and Coins

Tuesday 7th August.......Archaeological Illustration

Saturday 11th August.......An Introduction to Lithic analysis
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The project also runs guest lectures in St Mary's Church, Sedgeford at 7.30pm on Tuesdays during the 6 weeks of Summer Excavation – all welcome.
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Visitors welcome to view our excavations:
Sunday 8th July to Friday 17th August (except Saturdays)
11am to 4pm.