Community archaeology projects

Hagg Farm Romano-British farmstead excavation
Hagg Farm Romano-British farmstead excavation

We can help organise, direct, supervise or lend advice to community groups setting up archaeological projects, including excavation, survey and workshops. Our community/volunteer services can lend vital professional archaeological support to any community venture, ensuring that the projects are correctly undertaken from setup to final publication. When providing support to community groups, our approach can differ depending on the group’s needs and requirements, but we aim on the whole to provide the following guidance as standard:

  1. Good practice in archaeological excavation techniques;
  2. Good practice in recording techniques;
  3. Good practice in building recording techniques;
  4. Good practice in landscape survey techniques;
  5. Advice on health and safety on archaeological excavations;
  6. Advice on media involvement;
  7. Good practice in archaeological publication techniques;
  8. An insight into upcoming methodologies/processes.
What a comfy little grain dryer
What a comfy little grain dryer

Community projects in 2023

We are currently in the process of fully taking over the community project at The Hagg Romano-British farmstead site, Swaledale, on behalf of the Swaledale and Arkengarthdale Archaeology Group. This year the plan is to put together a project plan for the next couple of years, as well as potentially dig the odd test-pit or two…

We’re also hoping to be lending professional support to an upcoming project at East Tanfield railway, County Durham. 

More information on both projects will be published when details are available.

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See Section 16 for archaeology and heritage

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The Blair Mick Project...

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Test pitting the Causey West Bank Haulage Engine yesterday and today to check for solid structures beneath the rubble.

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Test pitting the Causey West Bank Haulage Engine yesterday and today to check for solid structures beneath the rubble.

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Is this a line that should never be crossed in archaeology? 😉

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Its amazing what can be found in modern clearance cairns (piles of stone cleared from the local area by farmers/landowners). In this one was this lovely likely Neolithic/Bronze Age cup-marked stone (unrecorded in the area), as well as the remnant of a stone marked as 'standing stone' in the Historic Environment Record...

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Its amazing what can be found in modern clearance cairns (piles of stone cleared from the local area by farmers/landowners). In this one was this lovely likely Neolithic/Bronze Age cup-marked stone (unrecorded in the area), as well as the remnant of a stone marked as `standing stone` in the Historic Environment Record...

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The Long Stone on Longstone Hill, Northumberland. The 1866 mapping shows the stone, but it does not appear in the Northumberland County Council Historic Environment Record for the area. The stone lies north of a Bronze Age funerary cairn field (Scheduled).

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The Long Stone on Longstone Hill, Northumberland. The 1866 mapping shows the stone, but it does not appear in the Northumberland County Council Historic Environment Record for the area. The stone lies north of a Bronze Age funerary cairn field (Scheduled).

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The 'Shepherd's Cairn' on Lucker Moor, Northumberland. Described in the Historic Environment Record as a Post-medieval funerary monument.

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The `Shepherd`s Cairn` on Lucker Moor, Northumberland. Described in the Historic Environment Record as a Post-medieval funerary monument.

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'Archaeopup' Luna popped into the office this morning, but decided she didn't fancy helping with the latest report writing...

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`Archaeopup` Luna popped into the office this morning, but decided she didn`t fancy helping with the latest report writing...

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