Trainee Supervisor Course 2012
An advanced course designed for those with past Field School experience. 6 ECTS / 3 Semester Credits are available on this course. (SU413)
Dates Available
30th April to 7th July 201225th June to 1st September 2012
The Achill Archaeological Field School's Trainee Supervisor Course is an exciting advanced course open to students with prior Field School experience, not necessarily gained at the Achill Archaeological Field School. The course is designed to offer a deeper level of training and is offered to students who can demonstrate a combination of skills including intuitive understanding of archaeological procedures, good work ethics, the ability to listen to and understand instruction, and the right temperament to become Site Supervisors.
The Trainee Supervisor Course is a unique learning experience which builds on the skills gained during previous Field School attendance. Candidates are therefore only selected when they have demonstrated a good understanding of the basic principals of excavation.
The Trainee Supervisors will be responsible for a particular area of the excavation and work with the director to ensure that the area is correctly excavated and recorded. The Trainee Supervisor will lead a team of students through the process of excavation, and be responsible for maintaining discipline, providing training to the students in the basic skills of excavation, and compiling the site archive for their area of the site. Each area will be a new excavation, and so the Trainee Supervisor will oversee the entire process of the excavation from laying out the trench and removing the sod, through to the completion of the excavation.
The Trainee Supervisor will then be instructed in the basic procedures of post excavation, learning how to prepare the written and drawn records to be placed into a permanent archive, how to digitise plans in AutoCAD 2012, and how to write a stratigraphic report. At the end of the course the Trainee Supervisor will have compiled a complete report of their area to full publication standard. When the report is published each Trainee Supervisor will be named as the co-author of the section of the report covering their particular area. This level of training is difficult to find and provides a major advantage to the Trainee Supervisor during job applications or applications for post-graduate study.
Academic Credits are available on this course
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SU413 Data Analysis
Digitised Section drawing and plan.
Field Skill tuition is provided in the following areas:-
Excavation:
Trowelling, Finds recording, Planning, Section drawing, levelling, Context sheet, Photography, Sampling.
Finds: Processing, Drawing and Database entry.
Drawing:Plan, Profile, Elevation and Section drawing.
Survey: Level, EDM/Total station, GPS and AutoCAD
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The Trainee Supervisors programme will be running on the following dates in 2012
Dates:- April 30th - July 6th, 2012 and June 25th - August 31, 2012
Duration: 10 Weeks
Course: € 4500
For additional course details and how to apply, please contact Dr Rory Sherlock, Director of Fieldwork, by
Email: info@achill-fieldschool.com
Phone: 00353 9843564
or by post: Achill Archaeological Field School, Archaeology Centre, Dooagh, Achill Island. County Mayo, Ireland.