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- 3rd February 2018
What’s been happening since the Soudley Camp excavation took place in October? The Foresters’ Forest Project is a five year Heritage Lottery Fund programme exploring and protecting the Forest of Dean’s heritage, but what does it actually involve? Since October we have been working with local volunteers to begin the huge task of recording...
- 22nd November 2017
Our Conservator, Rhonda, has received fantastic support from a group of dedicated volunteers to help preserve our collections. Here, Rhonda tells us about one of their recent projects: With all those boxes of archives and the ever-growing list of items that need to be conserved, I am always thankful for my group of stunning volunteers...
- 18th December 2015
We’ve been very excited to be part of the Foresters’ Forest Landscape Partnership, a HLF project in the Forest of Dean. One of the many strands is the investigation of possible archaeological features, which we we are providing training for. 35 volunteers have now been trained during four training session led by some of our...
- 16th July 2015
Sarah is our Skills for the Future trainee on a 15 month placement here at Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service. We introduced Sarah back in December 2014, and in April she blogged about the Infirmary Workshop she was creating, which went really well – but what else has she been up to? This has been an...