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Rock, Paper…Serpentinite: a day of ceramic analysis
My Day of Archaeology is far from a ‘normal’ one this year. School may be out for summer here in the UK but this archaeologist has returned to University, if only for a week. I have worked as a ceramic...
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Archaeological Team Building
The most common question that people ask me when I come back from fieldwork is: ‘did you find anything cool?’ There is still a perception among non-archaeologists that uncovering artefacts is our main...
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It’s Not all About Work – Principal Heritage Consultant Duncan Coe on...
Being an archaeologist is not all about work, working for a company means there are lots of opportunities to do things together outside the work environment, some of them social and some of them more...
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Skeleton Crew: A day in the life of an Osteoarchaeologist
My day, as always starts with coffee (in an appropriately themed mug). Then its check emails and answer queries. Today it was what to do with the human bone extracted from the animal bone. In many...
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Cotswold Archaeology: A Day in the Life of a Heritage Outreach Co-ordinator
My name is Emily Taylor and I am both a Heritage Consultant and part of the outreach committee at Cotswold Archaeology. I thought it would be interesting to provide a short summary demonstrating how I...
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Juggling Community, Commercial & Research Archaeology
This year’s ‘Day of Archaeology’ saw me juggling the three strands of my working life: community, commercial and academic archaeology. I realise that I have been very lucky to be paid to do a job I...
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Waterlogged wonders from Must Farm: Bronze Age boats, bowls, boxes and buckets
As an independent wood specialist, I’m spending the day sat at my computer, finalising the text for the waterlogged wood assessment report for the timbers excavated from the Late Bronze Age pile...
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Old pots, new technology
‘Day of Archaeology 2017’ finds me working on the final stages of a finds project with a difference. Instead of working my way through boxes of pottery sherds, I’m sat in front of my computer, updating...
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Commercial to Community Archaeology – A Day of Great Change
Hi, I’m Nina, an archaeologist working for Worcestershire Archive & Archaeology Service. Until this Monday I spent most days out in a field, or on a building site digging things. On Tuesday it felt...
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Diversity in Archaeological Work: One Archaeologist’s Journey
The mission of the Day of Archaeology project has been to show the diversity of work done by archaeologists around the world as a group, and what a success it has been! In this post, I want to...
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