Category: Events (Page 1 of 3)

Saturday 6th January in the Learning Room at the
Museum of Somerset from 10.30am – 12.30pm.

As we all know archaeology is the study of the past and in several of
our 2023 sessions we looked at the different ways archaeologists record
what they find.  In a fitting start to the New Year we will be looking
at the new ways we can use technology to digitally record and spread the
news of the latest archaeological discoveries as they happen!

Caroline Pathy-Barker will be showing us how to make an Archaeological
Blog!  We will be thinking about the sort of questions we might need to
include and recording mini-interviews and uploading them.

Please could you bring a mobile phones if you have one.  To make the
blog it would help if we can download an app so if necessary please
could you get permission to do this from your parents/carers.  It would
save time if you could download the app beforehand so we will send out
the link asap.  If you don’t have your own phone we can work in teams
with a MAYA Volunteer.

This will be an exciting session as it will also include the visit from
Rebecca from YAC HQ who will be talking to us about what we enjoy about
being a member of MAYA!

Please email to book your place on this fascinating session!  When you
email please could you let me know if you have your own phone and send
confirmation from your parents/carers if you can download the app.

Our next session will be our Christmas Party on Saturday 2nd December! It will be held in the Learning Room in the Museum of Somerset in Taunton from 10.30am – 12.30pm.

In the session we will be looking at what the mid-winter solstice meant to people in the past based on the megalithic monuments the built.  We will also be making our own solstice Christmas candles to take home!  We will finish off with party food and games!

Please email to book your place for this fun and seasonal session!

MAYA Family Archaeology Day at the Museum of Somerset in conjunction with the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society. Finds handling and identification, tours around Taunton Castle, sand pit dig and lots more!

Time: 10:30am – 4pm

The South Somerset Archaeological Research Group (SSARG), in conjunction with the National Trust and Mick Aston’s Young Archaeologists, will be continuing their geophysical survey of the gardens at Montacute House as part of the Council for British Archaeology’s annual Festival of Archaeology. Timed to coincide with the Farmers Market, members of the public will be able to freely access the grounds and have a go at carrying out a resistivity survey.

Time: 11am – 4pm

A Victorian Magic Lantern Show and Christmas party in the Learning Room in the Museum of Somerset 10.30am – 12.30pm

Andrew Butcher is an expert on Medieval manuscripts and in his studies has come across some surprises! Find out about the Medieval sense of humour and the hidden jokes and cartoons in ancient manuscripts.

Julian Richards from TV’s Meet the Ancestors returns! Julian is one of the county’s leading experts on Stonehenge and wrote English Heritage’s Stonehenge Guide Book. Learn all about England’s most famous prehistoric monument and have a go at building a Stonehenge of our own!

Details to follow.

The anniversary of our first MAYA session!  We’ll be looking back at the past year and updating the Time Line we did with Laura in July 2016.

Our next session will be on Saturday 1^st April and will be all about geophysical surveying!

We will be meeting at Stapleton Mead Farm, near Martock. Please email contact@yacsomerset.co.uk for exact directions.

PLEASE NOTE:  We have a limited amount of survey equipment and so in order to accommodate as many members as possible we will be holding two sessions.  Please email for more information and to book a place and say if you would prefer the morning or the afternoon session or if you have no preference.

Morning session:  9.30am – 12.30pm

Afternoon session:  1.30 – 3.30pm