Continuing and Further Education

For those able to get out and about there is life beyond Time Team! There are a number of organisations offering lectures, day schools and residential courses within, or within reach of, Merseyside. A fairly full list of potential providers is given on the Continuing and Further Education page of the Council of British Archaeology’s North West Region site.

A few of the items of particular interest follow.

Lectures (Chester Society for Landscape History

At 7.30pm in the Grosvenor Museum, Chester. More details at www.chesterlandscapehistory.org.uk.

25/10/10 Stonehenge. Julian Richards. (Members only)
29/11/10 Romano-British Settlement and Landscape in the North West Lowlands

Lecture Courses

Currently waiting for autumn programmes.

Day School

From mid day to 4.00pm in the Parrish Church, Wilmslow. More details at www.mancent.org.uk .

8/10/10  Sutton Hoo and the Staffordshire Hoard

Residential Courses

Based at Plas Tan Y Bwlch, the Snowdonia Environmental Studies Centre near Porthmadog.

1st to 8th August. Practical Industrial Archaeology Week

The Ratgoed Slate Quarry was linked by a 2 mile tramway to the Corris railway at Aberllefenni, the site of the Injun Magus Slate Mill and Enamelling Works. This annual event will continue recording the remains. Beginners welcome.

31st August to 5th September. Hill forts of Snowdonia and the Lleyn.

Discover their archaeology through a series of walks. More details at www.plastanybwlch.com.

Based at the Blencathra Field Studies Centre near Keswick

16th to 20th August. Celts, Romans and Rievers – The Archaeology of Cumbria. More details at www.field-studies-centre.org/blencathra.

Feedback

Please let us know how you get on  if you take up any of the above. Also if you can recommend any thing else for inclusion. Contact Roy Fletcher on tigertank2k5@yahoo.co.uk.