Message from discussion LOOKING FOR WORK ON A DIG!

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From: dave_be...@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Dave Beard")
Subject: Re: LOOKING FOR WORK ON A DIG!
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 12:04:16 GMT
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Joe (and anyone else who may be interested),

Re: Working on sites

This may be of interest.

David Hill & Margaret Worthington (University of Manchester) and myself 
(Museum of London) will be running a training dig/research excavation in 
France at Pont-de-l'arche, Normandy this summer.

The excavation will take place in the first two weeks of July.  People 
will be able to come on the training dig for one week as a basic 
introduction, or for two weeks with further tuition.  I am not yet sure 
of the fees for the training dig, as these are to be set by Manchester 
University.

In addition, it will be possible for people who have some excavation 
experience to come as volunteers.  In these cases there will be no formal 
tuition provided.  However, this does not simply mean that they will be 
used as trowel fodder!

The site is at Igoville, directly across the river from 
Pont-de-l'Arche,and is a fortification built by Charles the Bald against 
the Vikings.  The fortification, together with the fortified town of  
Pont-de-l'Arche,  was intended to provide a strong control on the river 
to prevent Viking incursions further up stream.

Last season's work produced evidence of a stone revetment for the 
fortification, and evidence of  one of the gates to the fort.  This 
year's work will further examine these features, and attempt to clarify 
the dating.

There is a good campsite at Pont-de-l'Arche, and a list of accommodation 
will be available with further details of the site.

If you are interested in further details, email me at:

dave_be...@cix.compulink.co.uk

Also, you might try the Council for British Archaeology (CBA) gopher site 
at:

gopher://britac.ac.uk:70/11/cba

Good luck!
Dave Beard