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The next two Jigsaw training courses are on Monday evenings:
Next Monday 13th May 7-9pm at the University Centre (Grad Pad), Cambridge: C6 'Theory and Methods of Landscape Survey' by Nicholas James. A class-based course on old and new methods of landscape survey from conducting plane-table survey through to using a theodolite. We have quite a few spaces on this one: do come and make the most of Nick's bountiful knowledge!
The following Monday 20th May 7-9pm at Hinchingbrooke Country Park: C7 'Theory of Geophysical Survey' by Peter Masters, professional geophysicist. A class-based course on the theory behind geophysics. We encourage anyone who has booked on a resistivity or magnetometry course to come along to this session. A few spaces left.
Booking as normal from here.
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Congratulations to Gamlingay Parish Council and GamArch for their successful Heritage Lottery Fund bid to create a Heritage Trail around Gamlingay. More information can be found on their website.
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The 2013 Jigsaw training programme is now well under way! We have finished our finds identification courses for the year, but before we move to our practical outdoor courses we have two courses dealing wtih the theoretical bases of practical techniques which you may be interested in:
C6 Theory and Methods of Landscape Survey - Mon 13th May 7-9pm at the University Centre 'Grad Pad', Cambridge
C7 Theory of Geophysical Survey - Mon 20th May 7-9pm at Hinchingbrooke Country Park, Huntingdon
We still have a few spaces on both these courses, so please book now if you'd like to come. We recommend all people learning how to do geophysical survey and plane table and/or dumpy-level landscape survey this year attend these courses to gain an understanding of the theoretical background behind the techniques.
More information and a booking form can be found here.
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Cambridgeshire Archaeology will be holding a guided walk along the famous Devils Dyke on Wednesday 8th May at 7pm meeting at the Burwell Road Car Park.
The Devils Dyke is the most prominent ancient monument in Cambridgeshire and the largest Anglo-Saxon defensive dyke in the Great Britain, being even larger than its more famous relative Offa’s Dyke. The tour on Wednesday will look at the wealth of archaeology, history and wildlife on the Dyke and surrounding area that includes a Roman Villa and Anglo-Saxon burial grounds.
Throughout the summer, Cambridgeshire Archaeology run a range guided walks around important archaeological sites in the county.
Stephen Macaulay, Senior Project Manager for Oxford Archaeology East, said: "Devils Ditch is an amazing ancient monument, not only for the Saxon dyke but also all the wealth of nearby archaeology as well. There are the remains of Prehistoric and Roman archaeology as well as the Dyke itself. Come along to the walk and find out for yourself”
If you wish to come to this guided walk please meet David Crawford-White, OA East Outreach Officer at the Burwell Road Car Park, at 7pm on Wednesday 8th May.
For further details on this or any other guided walks on the ancient monuments please contact Cambridgeshire Archaeology (01223) 728564.
You can also visit the Cambridgeshire County Council website where you can download a 2013 Events Leaflet. http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/leisure/archaeology/outreach/Outreach2011page.htm
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Do you know about the Cambridgeshire Archaeology Events Programme? Every year Cambridgeshire County Council's Historic Environment Team and Oxford Archaeology East work together to run a programme of events for the public, mostly guided walks. This has been going for many years, before Jigsaw! This year's Events Programme can be found here.
The next event is a guided walk at Landbeach and Wort's Meadow on Wednesday 1st May at 7pm lead by Stephen Macaulay of OAE (Jigsaw's Project Manager). It's free, just turn up.