The MK50 History event being held as part of the MK50 celebrations, in Campbell Park, Milton Keynes on the 17th and 18th June.

CLASP will be providing a static exhibition that will be themed on
the link through the Watling Street between Romano-British Milton Keynes and Northamptonshire.

CLASP is most appreciative of a substantive donation from Milton Keynes Heritage Association for the reprinting of three of our Case Studies that are relevant to this event.

Details of the event can be seen at:-

http://www.mk50.co.uk/whats-on/june-2017/heritage-mk-festival-of-history

The The Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland Project, that CLASP was deeply involved with by studying the hillforts of Northamptonshire, has won the University of Oxford’s Vice Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement with Research. CLASP has been formally invited to attend the Awards Ceremony at Oxford. Dave Hayward, Chair of Trustees, will be attending to represent not only CLASP but also our colleague Gren Hatton who led our input but will be unable to attend.

Additionally Dave will also be attending the final Conference of the Atlas Project at Edinburgh University and will ensure that both our overall work and the leadership of Gren are aptly reflected.

Just added to the site:

CLASP Geophysical Report No. 17/01
Geophysical Survey of a field West of Plum Park, Paulerspury, Northamptonshire

Six of a series of case studies written by Gren Hatton are now published. They summarise the work and findings of several CLASP projects in a uniform printable A3 format. Download and print them now to start your own CLASP library!

Go to CLASP Case-Studies

• CLASP Geophysical Report No. 16/04
  Geophysical Survey of the North-East corner of the walled Roman posting station of Bannaventa (Whilton Lodge) Norton, Northamptonshire: OS SP 461234 264692

From: Gren Hatton

Sent:17 December 2016

Subject: New CLASP case study, Iron Age Hill-forts survey project

Dear Colleagues,

The case study on CLASP’s recent project (providing survey reports to Prof. Gary Lock at Oxford University) is now complete, and has gone through the approval process within CLASP; it is now ready for printing, when appropriate funding is available. The case study (see below) provides a summary of the project, and includes examples of some of the analysis and interpretation that was contained in the full CLASP report on the project; the full analytical report is available as a download from CLASP’s website, along with copies of the individual survey reports on each of the hill-fort sites included in the project. Please feel free to copy the attached case study to anyone who might be interested.

With best wishes, Gren Hatton

• CLASP case study, Hillforts project A3

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From: Gary Lock

Sent: 19th December 2016

Subject: New CLASP case study, Iron Age Hill-forts survey project

Many thanks Gren.

Can I take this opportunity to thank you and your colleagues for a tremendous piece of work, the surveys have been invaluable to the Atlas. We are behind schedule but have now finished data collection and are well under way with mapping/analysis. We are hoping to launch the website with database around June time.

Happy Christmas to you all.
Best wishes,

Gary

Gary Lock MCiFA,
FSA Emeritus Professor of Archaeology
Emeritus Fellow of Kellogg College
University of Oxford

From Steve Parry, MOLA(N):

We are looking to recruit a number of post excavation assistants to undertake finds processing, environmental sieving and project archiving.  Please could you spread the word amongst CLASP and more widely.  Details of the jobs can be found at:

http://www.mola.org.uk/finds-and-environmental-processors-northampton

Anyone interested can have an informal chat to Tora Hylton or Rebecca Gordon (01604 809800).

Thanks

Steve

Dave Hayward, CLASP Chair of Trustees states that he is totally disgusted with the illogical decision of the AQA to announce discontinuance of its A and A’S’ level examinations. This is the only examining board that currently offers these examinations. What is really amazing is that the Council for British Archaeology (CBA), with others, was in the process of developing a new syllabus for these examinations and other support for the course. There has been no consultation with the archaeology sector over this decision.

CLASP will support any campaign to retain these examinations as it considers them essential for the future of archaeology in the United Kingdom. Without these qualifications there will undoubtedly be a dearth of appropriate students for archaeological university courses in the future, putting their archaeology departments at risk.

We therefore urge  anybody with the future of archaeology at heart to put any pressure possible onto the AQA through the media, MPs and signing the petition at …

https://www.change.org/p/aqa-save-a-level-archaeology

Thanks for your support.

Both the old and the new passwords now work.

These reports have been moved from the Members Only section to the Reports and Submissions section where they can be viewed by the public.