Skills List

Skills that will be covered during the course

Daily fieldwork/excavation
• Trowelling
• Sieving
• Planning
• Taking levels
• Laying out a grid
• Archaeological photography
• Recording finds
• Landscape analysis/ identification of features
• Soil recognition and description

• Completing context sheets
• Site matrix construction

• Environmental sampling
• Public education

Surveying
• Building analysis
• Plane table survey
• Total Station (EDM)
• Introduction to GIS applications
• Global Positioning System (GPS)
• Landscape survey
• Bog probing
• AutoCad

Laboratory work
• Finds processing
• Artefact identification
• Archaeological research
• Computer based mapping
• Environmental analysis/ microscope

The Achill Archaeological Field School is pleased to announce the participation of eminent Irish academics/archaeologists to deliver a series of timetabled lectures and workshops during the Archaeological Field School courses for 2012.  

Dr. Kieran O'Conor will deliver a series of lectures on Irish Lordships and Castles

Dr. Sharon Greene-Douglas will give a lecture on Early Medieval Ireland

Nick Brannon will host a Ceramics workshop

Dr. Catrional McKenzie will host a workshop on Osteoarchaeology

Volunteers with particular skills are invited to send their CV's for consideration.