Imagine spending an entire weekend with Time Team’s
Stewart Ainsworth
Learning How to Decode the Landscape
Look at the photograph above. Our previous students will be tell you that with ease they can see a Roman neighbourhood or settlement known as a Vicus, Roman, iron age and medieval roads and mines and buildings – all in the above photograph.
Stewart Ainsworth (ex Time Team) enthusing about the Epiacum historic Landscape
By the end of the weekend you, too, will be able to spot and interpret historical and archaeological features that you previously had no idea were there.
Evidence of a Roman Bath House – we even know when it was built – without excavating! The clues are in the landscape
Imagine going out and being able to spot hidden archaeological and historical features in the landscape with ease.
Fields, hills and the countryside will take on a completely different meaning for you, as you see historical and archaeological features and aspects others can’t see as you learn to interpret the landscape like an archaeologist
eastern ramparts
You will spend the entire weekend learning the tools, techniques and tricks of expert landscape archaeologists direct from Stewart and another professional archaeologist.
Aerial view of Whitley Castle fort
Not only that, but you will do so in the stunning unspoilt vista of the North Pennines, in an area with more than 8,500 years of history and archaeology to practise on. You will learn to piece together the stories of everything from Bronze Age miners and travellers, Iron Age villagers, Roman legions, through medieval to Victorian farmers to the present day.
Every age and era has left its mark on the landscape, you just need to know what to look for…
You will be expertly guided to unravel its secrets by Time Team’s Stewart Ainsworth in a small class. Lessons that will transform your appreciation of any landscape.
No longer will fields be fields and bumps be bumps, as you learn how to interpret the landscape. Transform walks and drives in the country. Spot archaeological and historical features you never knew were there.
Parade square and medieval farming, buildings and evidence of iron age settlement and Mesolithic activity … if you know what you are looking for…
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