caa2014 community archaeology and technology: community archaeology and geophysical survey:...
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Kris Lockyear and Ellen Shlasko Paper presented at Computer Applications in Archaeology Conference 2014, 22nd - 25th April 2014, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris as part of Session 12: Community Archaeology and Technology. Session organisers: Nicole Beale and Eleonora Gandolfi. Session blog: http://blog.soton.ac.uk/comarch/TRANSCRIPT
Community archaeology and
geophysical survey: reflections on the
Sensing the Iron Age and Roman Past in
Hertfordshire Project
Kris Lockyear
St Albans and Hertfordshire Architectural and Archaeological Society 1845
East Herts Archaeological Society 1898
Institute of Archaeology 1937
Welwyn Archaeological Society 1960
North Hertfordshire Archaeological Society 1960
Institute for Archaeologists 1982
• Welwyn Archaeological Society• North Herts Archaeological Society• Berkhamsted and District
Archaeological Society• East Herts Archaeological Society• Braughing Archaeological Group• Wheathampstead History Society• Leighton Buzzard Archaeological and
Local History Society
• West Essex Archaeological Group• Welwyn Hatfield Young Arch. Club• St Albans Young Archaeologists Club• St Albans and Hertfordshire
Architectural and Archaeological Society
• Chess Valley Archaeological Society
Sensing the Iron Age and Roman Past: geophysics and the landscape of Hertfordshire
Kris Lockyear, Ellen Shlasko, Andrew Bevan, Jarrod Burks, Rinita Dalan, Larry Conyers, David Wilbourn, Gai Jorayev, Theresa O’Mahoney, Alex
Banks, John Dent, Mike Smith, Gil Burleigh, Simon West, Isobel Thompson, Stewart Bryant, David Thorold, Ros Niblett, Jim West, Clare Lewis, Sarah Talks, Jon Wimhurst, David Minty, Morag McBride, Pippa
Colao, Roger Miles, Mark Landon, Burcu Urundul, Ralph Potter, Julia Merrick, Graeme Spurway, Barbara Harvey, Debbie Curtis, Bill
Martin, Evangeline Dalan, Bernard Jones, Pauline Hey, Ruth Halliwell, Keith Bradbury, Caroline Baigent, Bridget Edgson, Richard Maddams,
Carolyn Westlake, Anne Rowe, Sarah Adamson, Jean Savigar, Jean Bluck, Charles Stancer, Brian Dickinson, Alfie Talks, David Hall, Sheila Murray, Jane Buxton, Richard Cushing, Ben Crystal and Brian Adams.
Apologies to anyone I have missed!
• Training in the use of the magnetometer
and creation of teams of amateur
geophysicists.
• Teach a geophysics course for community
archaeologists.
• Undertake surveys of Roman and Iron Age
sites including Verulamium.
• Create and sustain a community of
interested participants
Goals of the Project
UCL Qatar’s UAV
hertsgeosurvey.wordpress.com
The Site Surveys (so far)
• Broomhall Farm, Watton at Stone
• The Senuna Site, Ashwell
• Gatesbury, Braughing
• Little Hadham
• Verulamium, St. Albans
• (Datchworth)
Some example results:
Verulamium
• Successes
– Course great success and very popular
– Foerster mag works well (with quirks)
– Excellent survey of a number of sites
– Core team of competent surveyors
– Creation of cross-group collaborations
– Creation of CAGG
– New sites being added to list
– Requests for help coming in (getting known)
– Ver survey of use in management and promotion
• Still to do
– Write up completed surveys
– More site surveys
– Software training
– Report writing training
– Add GPR?
– Not yet independent
• Main problems
– Survey, especially access to dGPS to georeferencesurveys properly, access to map data.
– Logistics