The Organising Committee has now been able to finalize the dates for our programme of excavations for this summer.
As with all of these events we are very dependent on the farmer’s harvesting and ploughing activities to be able to fix precise dates for some of our work, we are therefore providing windows for two sites and a fixed date for the third. These are as follows:-
All dates are inclusive!
August 16th until August 22nd – this includes the weekend:
The dig will be sited at Thrupp on the B4036, about two miles from Daventry.
September 3rd until September 14th
This is a ‘window’: the dig will be for a five day week during this period but not including the weekend – again this will at Thrupp, potentially on a Romano-British site.
September 17th until September 28th
Again a window for a five day excavation, not including the weekend. The excavation originally scheduled for this week – at the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Nether Heyford – has been changed to a further week at Thrupp, on the north side of the Daventry to Long Buckby Road. This has been caused by the farmer having to plant an earlier crop than anticipated, we do intend to return there in 2019 however.
Please put these dates in your diaries now, get your annual leave booked and trowels polished!
CLASP excavations are available only to our members. The membership fee is £10 per annum. We charge a contribution to dig expenses of £5 for each dig attended, or part thereof. Please look at Membership page for a membership application form.
An invitation to register your interest to ‘dig’ will be issued in the next couple of weeks – keep your eyes out for it.
