Doing Archaeology from Home
Starting out
| If you want to start out on your own it helps to start with a place or subject in mind. An on line search for ‘Saxon Yorkshire’ will give you a variety of links. ‘Saxon Craven’ will start to give you names of well known and distinguished local archaeologists like David Johnson. ‘Saxon Skipton’ will give you an interesting selection of pie shops as well as links to the Skipton and Craven History Society but not a link to the Craven Museum in Skipton. |
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Focus on a particular place or special place you want to know more about. That is more likely to take you to sites where you can find reports, social media, newspaper articles produced by local groups. If you try ‘Saxon Ingleborough’ you’ll find several links to the area and to reports and other publications for sale produced by the Ingleborough archaeology group. |
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You may already have a specific interest like ‘prehistoric flints in Yorkshire’ or ‘Cave Painting and Rock Art in Yorkshire’. Using search terms as specific as these will get you good results as well. |
| Once you’ve found websites which interest you some of the sites might offer you resources and opportunities for free. Some may ask you to pay a subscription or a fee. |
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It’s quite common to find sites which you can use which have not been updated recently, sites which are still being developed and sites which are experiencing technical problems. So beware and be ready to come back to them another day. Some sites are harder to learn how to use than others. At CBA Yorkshire our affiliate groups are more than happy for you to browse their materials online to help you learn more about the past. |
TrainingIf you are looking for training courses that may be of use, there are some providers who give out regular/ semi-regular training sessions on a variety of aspects of archaeology. Many of these are now online only, but some are in-person.
Historic England are England’s legal advisors to the government on all matters relating to archaeology, and also provide courses for professionals. However they do sometimes provide training for non-professionals and run events for community groups. Click on the logo for more information! BAJR CIFA CBA |
Getting Some InspirationSome magazines have useful sections of online links which are updated in each issue. Have a look in Current Archaeology: You can subscribe to Current Archaeology online ,https://archaeology.co.uk/subscriptions It has a regular feature in the Listings section ‘Heritage from Home’ in three parts ‘Virtual Visits’, ‘Educational Activities’ and ‘Family Fun’ where you can find a number of web sites covering world and UK archaeology. The Council for British Archaeology also produces a regular amount of publications on a variety of topics –https://www.archaeologyuk.org/. We recommend you move onto this selection of videos that may help you in your search for archaeology from your armchair!
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