Location: 6W39+HJ Mansfield, UK
Season: October 6, 2025 to October 10, 2025
Session Dates: 6th - 10th October, 2025.
Application Deadline: October 5, 2025
Deadline Type: Contact for Details
Website: https://mercian-as.co.uk/topo_survey.html
Program Type:
Field School
RPA Certified:
No
Affiliation:
Mercian Archaeological Services CIC
Project Director:
Andy Gaunt
Project Description:
In archaeology the ability to measure the location of a site, artefact, or earthwork is essential.
Nowadays many archaeological sites use either GPS or Total Station for site survey. Differential GPS can record points of circa 1cm accuracy levels in three dimensions, and can also allow real time ‘on the fly’ measurements to be taken allowing large areas of land to be surveyed. The total station is an electronic theodolite and Electronic Distance Measurer that records point locations by measuring distance and angles.
This course will teach the required skills that are used on excavations and other sites for locating features using GPS and total Station.
The course will also go further to enable participants to learn the complex skills of archaeological topographic survey, recording a site with a combination of both objective and subjective survey methods.
Topographic Survey Training course aims to help participants learn about the theory, science, uses, methods, logistics, deployment, data collection, data processing, and reporting, behind archaeological topographic surveying.
The course will include a mixture of classroom and field based working. This is a field based training course consisting of hands-on experience backed up by some work in a classroom style environment. YOU will undertake the work in a group and collect real data in the field.
The course will include:
Students will meet at at King John’s Palace in Clipstone. The training will take place at the site of the former medieval Palace, and a survey may be undertaken in at another site within Sherwood Forest. Full details of the site will be provided nearer the time (transport from the classroom sessions to the field will be provided if required).
Period(s) of Occupation: All periods
Project Size: 1-24 participants
Minimum Length of Stay for Volunteers: 1 week
Minimum Age: 15
Experience Required: No Experience Required
Room and Board Arrangements:
Accommodation not provided
Andy Gaunt
Staffordshire House Beechdale Road
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
NG8 3FH
United Kingdom
