How did people in the past preserve animal skins, hides and furs and what did they use them for? A lively session with the return of Sally Herriett from our Launch event.
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Many of you will remember Peeps, the star of our Launch event last April (with apologies to Phil Harding!) In January Peeps will be returning for a unique MAYA session where we will be finding out what Peeps and other owls eat and learn how tiny animal bones can be useful to archaeologists.
Come along to the launch of Mick Aston’s Young Archaeologists, with special guest Phil Harding from TV’s “Time Team”!
10am – 4pm Saturday 9th April in the Learning Room at the Museum of Somerset in Taunton.
- Handle and identify archaeological artefacts
- Indoor archaeological dig… Try your hand at being an archaeologists!
- Make your own Bronze Age brooch out of paper
- Find out how the “geophys” machines of the “Time Team” work
- Meet Bony Tony!
And lots more… 
All welcome!
The South West Heritage Trust presents an Experimental Archaeology Day with MAYA! 10am – 3.30pm. Family event with free entry.
Join the Hands on Heritage Team for a day of making, moulding, melting and getting messy!
Delve into the crafts of our ancestors to discover how wood is turned on a pole lathe, how to melt metal into jewellery or make pottery from clay. Explore our re-constructed Roman Dining Room and venture into our Saxon Longhall. A chance to meet Julian Richards from TV’s Meet the Ancestors!
Sensible clothing and footwear advised.
With Laura Burnett.
Join us for a chance to dig on a real excavation! The South Somerset Archaeological Research Group (SSARG) has invited MAYA to join them for a day at their excavation of a Roman rural settlement near Martock. More information will be sent out to our members by email later this month. Members will also need to sign up for this visit in advance so keep a look out in your inbox!
with Chris Webster and Shonie Millward.
Indoor dig or fieldwork activity with Julian Richards
It’s great to go and actually dig on a real site – get dirty and find stuff (the reason that I went into archaeology in the first place!) but there are other ways of finding out what happens on a dig and how archaeologists use finds to build up a picture of the past. So come along and experience our ‘Indoor Dig‘ – and no, it’s not a box of sand with some finds buried in it! It’s a way of explaining stratigraphy, planning and interpretation – all the things that archaeologists need to know and understand. It’s been experienced by over 3000 school kids in Dorset and Wiltshire over the last few year so you could be the first in Somerset to find out how it works. I’ve been digging for over 40 years and teaching (lots with Mick Aston) for about 30 years so I certainly wouldn’t turn up to a MAYA meeting with a box of sand…..Mick would never forgive me….
Hope to see you on the 8th October.
Julian (Richards)
Reconstructing a sheep workstation with Clare Randall
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