XArch Project: Community Workshops

Practical training sessions in the field:

1) Primary earthwork survey techniques
a) Off-set tape survey & triangulation
b) Use of Total Stations and automatic levels

2) Modern archaeological techniques
Use of GPS, 3d modeling, and use of geophysical Survey (where applicable)

3) Modern sciences assisting archaeology
Palaeoenvironmental survey

Training Workshops:

1) Understanding Settlement & Landscape Workshops
Part One: A 1 hour basic explanation about how to understand the local/regional settlement & landscape patterns.
Part Two: A 2 hour practical workshop in which the public can initially ask questions relating to the first hours presentation and review maps (new and old).

2) County Record Office and County Sites and Monuments Office documentary workshops
This involves XArch staff organising and undertaking community group members to visit and the Counties Record Office and Sites and Monuments Office so they can understand accessing for documentary evidence.

3) Laboratory day visits
Small groups will be given the opportunity to visit the University of Exeter’s Geography laboratories to learn about and carry through the processes for scientific analysis of soils and sediments.

4) Supplementary training for dissemination of data
For groups having undertaken full-scale investigation of their documentary resources and/or carried out fieldwork survey there will be the opportunity to discover how to disseminate their data. The data can then be fed by the volunteers into a Geographical Information's System (GIS).

Community Groups