Monthly Archives: July 2007

University of London Certificates, Diplomas and Short Courses in Archaeology 2007/8 are now available. At Birkbeck you are offered a wide range of courses taught by people who are as passionate about their past as they are about sharing their expert knowledge of archaeology with you. These range from day schools and summer excavation training to Certificatesand Diplomas in Archaeology, Field Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern and Aegean Studies. Their next Open Evening is September 6th.

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The North Herts Archaeological Society presented a display at the ‘Archaeology in Your Backyard’ event at Bassingbourn Village College on 7th July 2007. The display told the story of the discovery of a Romano-British temple treasure by a metal detectorist and the subsequent investigations and excavations which took place over the following 4 years. Gil Burleigh, the Society’s Field Officer, presented a lecture on the subject of ‘The Royston Mile Ditches and other Iron Age multiple-ditched territorial boundaries on the Icknield Belt in the eastern Chilterns’. Click here for details of his talk.