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Successful Heritage Lottery Award for Worcestershire Young Archaeologists! Issue Number 006 April 2008 Regional Museums re-open after face lifts: Work to extend the Museum of Cannock Chase has finished after six months and will be re- opening to the public in the spring. The work has been carried out as part of the £1.9 million Chase Heritage Trail project and includes a new reception area, tourist information area, shop, local history gallery and a second gallery for temporary displays. When completed, the Chase Heritage Trail will be ten-mile route through the district for walkers and cyclists. Galton Valley Canal Heritage Centre has recently re-opened and brand new Heritage Lottery Fund supported displays and exhibitions are on show. There are a variety of educational resources; including the forthcoming ‘Towpath of Time’ Teachers Resource Pack for Key Stage 2 and 3 History and Geography Modules, and school visits are welcomed. They organise a lively programme of events throughout the year, and run holiday workshops for children. Pre booked guided walks for groups are available at a small charge. Open 10-3 every day (apart from Monday and Saturday) Brasshouse Lane, Smethwick, B66 1BA. Tel: 0121 558 8195. Successful Heritage Lottery Award for Worcestershire Young Archaeologists! The Worcestershire Young Archaeologists’ Club (WYAC) are delighted to announce an award of nearly £50,000 by the Heritage Lottery Fund ‘Your Heritage’ to their first ever community project. Story continues over page………. Successful Heritage Lottery Award for Worcestershire Young Archaeologists! The sum of £49,900 was awarded to the Northwick Manor Community Heritage Project in January and will enable various initiatives to take place over its duration (running from April 2008 to April 2010). The project is designed to engage and inspire local people of all ages, through the historic landscape, archaeology and natural environment of Northwick and Bevere, part of the northern suburb of Worcester. The area forms part of the ancient Manor of Northwick and includes the site of a medieval moated palace belonging to the Bishops of Worcester, an early river crossing and trading wharf, post-medieval brickyards, existing medieval fishponds and many other sites and buildings of interest. Also part of the project’s focus is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), an area of species-rich marshland where clay-extraction has left its mark on the landscape. WYAC will be supported by a variety of partner organisations including Worcester City Museum Archaeology Section, Worcestershire Historic Environment and Archaeology Service, Worcester City Parks Department, Worcestershire Record Office, the Portable Antiquities Scheme and the University of Worcester. Activities will include community events, workshops, walks and talks on local history, natural history and how to do historical research, as well as archaeological fieldwork and building recording. Local schools will be participating in various exciting history and art projects alongside their own artist in residence. The project will record memories of the Northwick area, as well as any photographs or even finds that local people may have from their gardens, and there will also be art and photography competitions – open to all. An important aspect of the project will be the conservation of the superb but fragile 18 th -century John Doharty map of the Manor of Claines. All of these activities will feed in to the creation of a circular ‘Heritage Trail’ from Northwick along the River Severn to Bevere, featuring interpretation boards (designed by students in consultation with the community), historic reconstruction and wildlife illustrations. There will also be project web pages with downloadable trail guides and reports, and a booklet on the history of the area will be produced in conclusion of the project, drawing on the research gathered by local people. The project was partly inspired by the work undertaken by a particularly keen group of young archaeologists from the club, who designed their own monument trail for Northwick as part of the national ‘Young Archaeologist of the Year Award’ and were highly commended for their entry. This can be viewed on the national YAC website at: http://www.britarch.ac.uk/yac/WYAC.pdf . Congratulations are due to Charlotte Arthur, Tristan Bond, Sam Brookes, Nathan Hazlehurst, Edward Jenkins and Oliver Pike, all of whom gave up many hours of their time after school and at weekends to complete a fantastic piece of work. If you would like to find out more about the project, please contact the project co-ordinators: Sheena Payne [email protected] and Deborah Overton [email protected] 01905 721133/ 855494. Postal address: Worcester City Museum Archaeology Section, 26 The Butts, Worcester WR1 2HU Birmingham’s Young Archaeologists Club (BYAC) BYAC is currently looking for new members and adults to become helpers at meetings. We’re a vibrant quirky bunch who really enjoy our sessions and are seeking similar to help spread the fun! Our meetings are usually on the last Saturday of the month from 10.30-12.30 (sometimes a little longer). If you’re interested in joining us then please contact Kirsty ([email protected] , 0121 414 5513) or Juliet ([email protected] ) for more info! Forthcoming programme: 31st May 2008 – Historic Kings Norton: Final part of our Restoration project 28th June 2008 - Finds Drawing Session in conjunction with the Portable Antiquities Scheme. 13th July 2008 (Sunday) - National Archaeology Week event at Weoley Castle Ruins, in conjunction with Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. August - No meeting in August due to the summer holiday 27th September 2008 - Cemetery visit (details to be confirmed) 18th October 2008 - Pollen and Environmental Archaeology 22nd November 2008 - Visit to the Lapworth Museum 13th December 2008 - Glyphs, Ciphers and Enigma - Breaking the Codes of History at Birmingham Archaeology NATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGY WEEK The first National Archaeology Day was held in 1990 with a total of ten events. Initially it was linked in with European Heritage Days in September of each year, but feedback from participants led to a separation from EHD and a move to July to make the most of the fieldwork opportunities and to gain maximum publicity. Popularity increased and by 2003 it had become a weekend event with 195 events around the country. A further increase to 232 events in 2004 led to the first nine-day National Archaeology Week being held in July 2005. This expansion resulted in a 34% increase in participation of event venues. A total of 337 events were registered for NAW 2006 and a record 430 events took place in 2007 NAW is a nine day event, taking place mainly across England and Wales. It is coordinated each year by the Council for British Archaeology, and supported by English Heritage and Towergate Risk Solutions. NAW is entirely reliant on the participation of groups, societies and organisations around the country. The intention is that this high profile flagship event should continue to grow and become firmly embedded in the national consciousness. The aim of this annual event is to encourage everyone, especially young people and their families, to visit sites of archaeological/historical interest or museums/heritage and resource centres, to see archaeology in action and to take part in activities on-site Relating back to CBA’s own goal of ‘archaeology for all’, we aim to enhance the event to encourage more venues to take part, reaching all parts of society, right across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, thereby creating a higher public profile for archaeology and its benefits to the nation’s quality of life. All organisations are welcome to register an event for National Archaeology Week. You can put on any event you like – lectures, guided tours, excavations, open days, hands-on activities – it is entirely up to you to decide how you would like to get people involved. The CBA co-ordinates the whole event by ensuring that all events are registered. Once we have all the details of the events, we produce a National Events guide covering all registered events. This is distributed through event organisers and Tourist Information Centres and is also included with June issues of British Archaeology and Young Archaeologist Club magazines. We also produce a variety of sizes of posters which are available to event organizers, so that they can add their event details and publicize their event(s) locally. All event details are also posted on the NAW pages of the CBA website. In the months leading up to NAW we also gain national media coverage and there is normally a high profile event to help officially launch the week. CBAWM Education Day 2008 Educational Resources for Archaeology and History and their Applications Date: Saturday 17 th May 2008 Time: 10.00am – 4.00 pm Venue: Birmingham Archaeology Cost: £5 (includes lunch & refreshments) Numbers: Maximum 30 participants Provisional Programme 10.00: Welcome and housekeeping 10.10: The role of archaeology in the National Curriculum 10.30: Archaeology and the new public examinations 10.50: Further and Higher Education 11.10: Coffee 11.30: Lifelong learning 11.50: The Portable Antiquities Scheme 12.10: What museums have to offer 12.30: Plenary 13.00: Lunch 13.45: Workshop 1 – What’s in a building? 14.15: Workshop 2 – Drawing and photographing artefacts Part I 15.00: Coffee 15.15: Workshop 3 – Drawing and photographing artefacts Part II 15.45: Workshop 4 – Using education packs and developing resources from other materials 16.15: Closing Remarks Contributors
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