Thursday January 23rd 2025 – Coins and metal finds. Dr Denise Wilding. 20 places.
Media reports often glamorise the presence of coins and metal objects within archaeology, but their ability to inform us about how people in the past lived and worked is where their true potential lies. This workshop will include an introduction to Roman coins, dress accessories and ironwork, as well as a practical session for each where you will be taught how to carry out basic identifications and dating. An update as to how these finds fit into the wider Teffont picture will also be provided.
Fully Booked
Thursday 20th February 2025 – Conservation. Celia Godfrey. 20 places.
Excavating objects from the relatively stable burial environment puts them in danger of deterioration from sudden exposure to the moisture and oxygen in the atmosphere. This Conservation Workshop will provide an introduction to cleaning and consolidating different materials, and having a go at ceramic reconstruction and gap-filling. You will get to take home a booklet of the information provided.
Fullly Booked!
Thursday 13th March – Pottery. Alyson Tanner and Amanda Morwood. 15 places.
This will be a hands-on session looking at pottery. The session will focus on Roman pottery and how to identify the most significant types of fabrics and forms. We will also think in overview about pottery to explore how it helps archaeologists to date and characterise sites.
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Thursday 10th April – Animal bone. Dr Clare Rainsford. 15 places.
Animal bone is one of the most common finds recovered on archaeological sites. But how do we identify these bones, and what can they tell us about our history? This session will introduce methods of working with archaeological animal bone, and how we can use it to explore the various roles animals played in human lives, including in diet, ecology, and craft practices, with a case study on animal bone recovered from recent excavations at the Teffont Roman shrine complex.
Fullly Booked!