It’s been a busy couple of weeks for the Romans in Ravenglass outreach team!
What have we been up to?
SCHOOL VISITS
We have welcomed over 100 school children from four local
schools – Haverigg Primary, Ennerdale and Kinniside, Black Combe and Seascale
primaries - to the site. Not only did the schools get to see and handle Roman
artefacts but they also got to do a bit of digging!
Jon Kenny, Community
Archaeologist from the York Archaeological Trust supervises the budding
archaeologists in Trench 4.
Project volunteer
Finds Assistant Rosalie McAndrew watches over the finds washing!
We’ve already had some feedback from one of the teachers: ‘Thank you to you and your enthusiastic team for the excellent day…. The children learned a lot, were inspired, and it was a great start to our Roman topic - hands on history’.
YOUNG PEOPLE GROUPS
We’ve run two special open days for young people this year.
The first was with the Lake
District National Park’s Young Rangers and Young Champions from the MOSAIC
project.
MOSAIC Young Champions learning the art of ‘levelling’.
And last weekend we ran a session with Young Archaeologists’ Club, Kendal Branch. A huge amount of fun (and a lot of learning!) was had by all.
Young Archaeologists
getting their hands-on.
OPEN DAYS
We hosted our first Saturday open day to coincide
with the national Heritage Open Days festival. We had nearly 200 visitors to
the site who either took part in a site tour, handled Roman finds, searched for
buried treasure or got down on their knees to do a bit of digging. Some did all four!
Searching for ‘buried
treasure’ in the sands of time!
I know I left a field
drain down here somewhere!
Don’t forget to come and visit us this Saturday 27 September for our final project open day... Find
out what else we have found and meet a real-life Roman ;)
Lisa Keys, Minerva Heritage Ltd
Romans in Ravenglass Outreach Coordinator
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