Southampton Archaeovillage Activity Day Event
For more information regarding this event, please email William Davies at S.W.G.Davies@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
As part of the Festival of British Archaeology, Archaeology here at Southampton will be hosting a day of hands-on activities and demonstrations.
We are planning lots for everyone to do, take part in and /or watch, including:
- Log boat live! (making a log boat using ancient technologies)
- Medieval shipwrighting using our axe collection
- Maritime archaeology
- Cave art
- Will it Knap?
- Stone Age plastics
- Human Origins and a chance to meet our distant ancestors!
- Human bones
- Discoveries and finds from Old Sarum (Wiltshire)
- Peculiar Particles
- Reconstruct a face
- Learn Roman writing
- Roman pottery stamps and how to use them
- Excavation recording
- Build-a-burial
- Geophysics
- Minecraft
