With the onset of Britain’s third covid-19 lockdown within a year, Triskele Heritage will be stepping up to try and provide some (hopefully) entertaining and informative free public talks. The weekly lockdown lectures will feature the fruits of our research so you can be sure that the content will all be bang up to date!
Each week we will host a lockdown lecture freely accessible to anyone with a web connection via Zoom. All you need to do is register via Eventbrite and – when the time for the talk rolls around – grab your favourite beverage of choice, get comfy and enjoy.
Our next event will take place at 18:00 BST on Thursday 15 April 2021 and will focus on the British Field Archaeology – Meet the Commercial Archaeologists.
PLEASE NOTE the slightly later-than-usual start time of 18.00 BST.
Booking is now available via Eventbrite.
Due to our licensing agreement with Zoom tickets for each event will be limited to 495 places. If you cannot make it after booking, please do return your ticket so that someone else can enjoy the talk instead.
Please note that this is a live event only and there will not be a recording of the talk available afterwards.
If you have a question about the event – in the first instance please see our FAQs section. The answer will almost certainly be in there.
More information on the talk
The vast majority of archaeological fieldwork and research in Britain takes place behind the hoardings of commercial development or infrastructure sites and in private offices. It is rare for the public to get a glimpse of the work of the commercial field archaeologists. In this one-off panel session, three professional archaeologists will explain how archaeology works in Britain, what the processes of archaeological excavation are and what happens to the finds once they are taken off for analysis. We will hear from Senior Archaeologists Jessica Bryan (MOLA) and Natasha Billson (Pre-Construct Archaeology) alongside osteoarchaeologist Dr Lauren McIntyre (Oxford Archaeology).
The event will be hosted by James Wright (Triskele Heritage) who is an award winning buildings archaeologist. He has two decades professional experience of ferreting around in people’s cellars, hunting through their attics and digging up their gardens. He hopes to find meaningful truths about how ordinary and extraordinary folk lived their lives in the mediaeval period.
