Duration: 10th - 29th June 2012. Work on site takes place daily between 9am - 5pm, six days each week (excludes Saturday)

Entry requirements:
No formal qualifications are required to attend the Field School; which has been designed for students and volunteers (aged 16 years or over) who wish to gain experience in archaeological field practice.

Course overview
The Durotriges Project is an archaeological investigation studying the transition from the late Iron Age to the early Roman period in southern England.

The fieldwork, takes place within Dorset, a county of outstanding natural beauty and one of the best preserved archaeological landscapes in Britain. The project is run as a Bournemouth University summer field school.

The invasion of southern Britain by Rome is usually treated as if it was a single, dramatic event, with the Roman legions fighting a lengthy and bitter war of conquest. But, was it really like this? The Durotriges Project is reconsidering the Iron Age to Roman transition through a detailed programme of field survey, geophysical investigation and targeted excavation. In the summer of 2009 excavation commenced (continuing in 2010, 2011 & 2012), upon an enclosed late Iron Age 'banjo' settlement containing round houses, work surfaces, storage pits and the footings of a Roman masonry building.

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