Location: King’s Clipstone, Nottinghamshire
Price: £450 per person, or £350 per student (in full time education 18 and under, Student NUS card holder or international equivalent*, Distance Learning etc)
2025 dates:
Week A: 21st – 25th July
Week B: 28th July – 1st August
Week C: 4th – 8th August
Week D: 11th – 15th August
*Please note accommodation is not provided*
The Sherwood Forest Archaeology Training Field School focuses on the medieval hunting lodge and palatial enclosure of the King’s Houses, now known as King John’s Palace, and the designed landscape that surrounded it.
Once the Royal Heart of Sherwood Forest in the medieval period, the site was visited by all eight kings between Henry II and Richard II, with King John possibly holding a proto-parliament there in the early 13th century and Edward I holding Parliament there in 1290.
As part of the field school, attendees will have the opportunity to learn all about Sherwood Forest, Robin Hood, outlaws, foresters, the landscape of Sherwood Forest in medieval times, the forest law, courts, offences and judiciary, the Palace at Clipstone, monasteries, chapels and hermitages, hunting parks, Nottingham Castle , Sheriffs, and much more.
The training course is suitable for all levels, from beginner to experienced digger, and participants will receive training and experience in many techniques of excavation, including The Core Skills of the Archaeological Skills Passport:
- Hand-tools (Trowel etc)
- Hand-tools (Spade, Mattock etc)
- Site Formation Processes
- Stratigraphic Excavation
- Context Sheet Recording
- Site Photography
- Site Grid and Trench Layout
- Dumpy Level and Staff
- Archaeological Planning and Section Drawing
- Site Safety
Plus many higher level archaeological techniques that make up the Secondary Skills of the Archaeology Skills Passport, including finds processing, and instruction in additional skills such as:
- Pottery identification,
- Finds handling,
- Finds processing,
- History of Ceramics lectures,
- Introduction to LiDAR, Archaeological Survey presentation,
- Introduction to Photogrammetry in Archaeology
Field Days include a lunchtime sandwich.
More details: www.mercian-as.co.uk/sherwoodforestfieldschool.html
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