Portable Archaeology Exhibition 2017 (360G-SomersetCF-A423755)

Portable Archaeology Exhibition 2017

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Grant Details

Amount Applied For 1500
Amount Awarded 1000
Award Date 2016-11-02T00:00:00+00:00
Beneficiary Location: Country Code GB
Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code E01014441
Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code Type LSOA
Beneficiary Location: Name Bath and North East Somerset 023E
Grant Programme: Code Mendip Hills Sept 2016
Grant Programme: Title Grants to Groups
Impact Category Connect people with the arts, culture and heritage
Last Modified 2017-10-26T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Duration (months) 11
Planned Dates: End Date 2017-12-29T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2017-01-02T00:00:00+00:00
Primary age group Adults (26 – 65)
Primary beneficiary Local residents
Primary ethnicity White British
Primary issue Arts, culture and heritage
Recipient Org: Description We are a Mendip based community archaeology group, which was started in 2009 by a local archaeologist with three colleagues, and has now recruited 30 members in the course of our activities over the last seven years. We are all from the Mendip area, or near environs. Our objectives are to increase local people's knowledge of the archaeology and history of this area through active excavation and other exploratory work, to involve local people in this work and provide training for them, and to publish both academic papers and more accessible accounts of our work and findings on our website. We aim to enhance local people's knowledge and consequently their appreciation and enjoyment of their local environment ,and wherever possible, involve them in our work. We frequently give talks to local community groups, schools and historical societies, and regularly contribute speakers to major conferences; for example the Mendip Hills Heritage day, held annually at Wells Museum, to which we always put up a couple of speakers. We organise public digs to which all are invited, and teach the basic skills of excavation, surveying sites, drawing , geophysics, find recording/preservation and so forth. We organise guided tours of historic sites, and provide a professional service gratis for local people who have made finds, or have fields with unusual configurations surveyed by geophysics, to reveal any underlying structures. Our lead archaeologist and founder, Pip Osborne, was runner up in the British Council for Archaeology " Community Archaeologist of the Year 2014" award. Our activities are mainly aimed at adults, but we do talk to school groups and have opened our major site at Chewton Mendip to school children for a guided tour, talk, and viewing of artifacts we have found. This is part of our overall objective of inspiring an awareness of and interest in the history of the Mendip area.
Recipient Org: Web Address http://www.camplat.btck.co.uk