We have had an update on the progress of the Ice Age Journeys project along with the plans for fieldwork in September.
Ice Age Journeys has won a Heritage Lottery Fund grant for a collaborative
partnership between the Late Upper Palaeolithic sites at Farndon Fields,
Creswell Crags and Bradgate Park. These areas reveal the lives of the first
colonisers of the East Midlands at the end of the Ice Age 14,000 years ago.
We’ll be mapping the Ice Age landscape, following the
clues left by people who moved into and through our region. Over the
winter we’ll have a series of talks and be creating a new web-site. But,
to kick off in September, we’ll be conducting some fieldwork – in a new field
which extends the known distribution of the Ice Age flints. We’ll be
using augering and test-pitting to investigate the stratigraphy in this field,
and, if we’re lucky, hit undisturbed deposits containing flints. Later in
the autumn, we’re hoping to do some more fieldwalking.
September Fieldwork programme
12th – 14th - fieldwork
?15th - young people ‘taster’ session – if it can be arranged
17th -21st - fieldwork
22nd - fieldwork and public open day
24-25th - final recording and completion
Further information available soon – or contact John
Miller, Ian Ross or Daryl Garton.
In addition, on
Sunday 9th September, James Dilley will be demonstrating flint-knapping in
Sconce & Devon Park between 10.30-4pm.
