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Jigsaw, funded by the Heritage Lottery, has been shortlisted for Best Community Engagement Archaeology Project in the prestigious 2014 British Archaeological Awards.
“Jigsaw Cambridgeshire: Piecing Together Cambridgeshire’s Past”, is a partnership project between Oxford Archaeology East and Cambridgeshire County Council.
Jigsaw Community Archaeologists work with voluntary groups across the county enabling people to investigate the history of their own local areas. Jigsaw runs free training and expertise, and has an equipment resource so that groups can borrow tools and specialist kit for carrying out geophysics surveys and excavation projects. Jigsaw currently has set up or supports 20 groups across the county, with nearly 500 people working on over 50 projects to date.
The BAA winner will be announced at a ceremony to be held at The British Museum on 14 July to be compèred by Loyd Grossman, Chair of The Heritage Alliance, with Dan Snow, President of the Council for British Archaeology. This also marks the start of a two-week celebration of all things archaeology during the 24th Festival of Archaeology with over 1000 public events, many free, on offer across the UK.
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Jigsaw Cambridgeshire: Piecing Together Cambridgeshire's Past, a Heritage Lottery-funded project run by OA East and Cambridgeshire County Council, was highly commended in the Best Community Engagement Archaeology Project category at this year's British Archaeological Awards.
The awards ceremony, presented by Loyd Grossman, Chair of The Heritage Alliance, Ed Vaizey, then Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, and Dan Snow, President of the Council for British Archaeology, was held on 14th July at the British Museum, where audience members and fellow nominees learned about the successful project, now halfway through its five-year programme.
After the ceremony, Jigsaw community archaeologists Jo Richards and Jemima Woolverton joined OA East's outreach and learning officer, David Crawford-White, Quinton Carroll, Cambridgeshire County Council archaeologist, and Roger Mould, leader of Warboys Archaeology Project, one of the groups working with Jigsaw, at an awards reception to celebrate along with other nominees and award winners.
Jigsaw Cambridgeshire works with voluntary groups across the county enabling people to investigate the history of their local areas. The project runs free training, and provides expertise and equipment, allowing groups to carry out geophysical surveys and excavation projects. Jigsaw currently has set up or supports 20 groups across the county, with nearly 500 people working on over 50 projects to date.
