Courses are suitable for either beginners or those with some experience. A tenth season of excavations is planned at Botel Bailey on the site of King John I s royal court and King Edward Balliol s castle or mansion house. Accommodation and camping facilities available. Instruction will be given in a full range of excavation techniques and recording methods. Suitable for beginners or those with some experience.
Minimum attendance is normally two weeks.
The Archaeology Dept at the University of Bournemouth will be running the seventh season of the Billown Neolithic Landscape Project. The project is run as a university field-school. The Cressing Temple Field School is offering four, week-long courses providing a practical introduction to fieldwork techniques. This year's excavation project includes a late Roman timber building and a system of late Iron Age settlement boundaries and enclosures. Courses include introductions to pottery and artefacts from the periods and the archaeology of the area.