Shovel Down National Archaeology Week 2005
July 2005 | The Shovel Down Project, Dartmoor, Devon
In 2005 as part of The Council for British Archaeology’s National Archaeology Week The Shovel Down Project held two events.
The first event was an Art and Archaeology workshop for Primary School Children from Lifton Primary School, Devon. Children got a chance to help out on an archaeological dig and also made some drawings, including an enormous rubbing of the inside of a Bronze Age roundhouse.
The second event was a workshop for Masters Students from Kingston University Department of Drawing Research. Students investigated the technical processes archaeologists use to draw on site, and responded to the environment of the Shovel Down excavations.
The workshops were supported by:
The Devon Arts in Schools Initiative (DAISI)
The Dartmoor National Park Authority
The National Campaign for Drawing
The Dartmoor Trust
Previous Events
- Art and Archaeology Exhibition
- Earthscapes: Geology + Geography Seminar
- Touchstone
- Stonehenge Riverside: The Ventral Surface
- Another Proof of the Preceding Theory Screening at the Herzliya Biennale
- Ventriloquist
- Art and Archaeology Seminar
- Simon Callery Field Drawings
- Drawing Stonehenge
- Virtual World Exhibition: Stonehenge Riverside Project 2007 Artist Residencies
- Site Specific: Between Archaeologists and Artists
- Some Time Now
- Interferences - High Moorland Visitor Centre, 2006
- Interferences - offiCina, Beijing, China, 2006
- The Big Draw
- Shovel Down National Archaeology Week 2005
- The UCL Big Draw Event
Publications
- Documenting the Past - Cheshire Life Article, November 2008
- Drawing from the Past
- Drawing Time - British Archaeology Magazine Article
- South of Woodhenge. An Interim Report on the 2007 excavations
- Land Division and identity in Later Prehistoric Dartmoor, South-West Britain
- Recent Approaches to the Archaeology of Land Allotment
- Historical context and chronology of Bronze Age land enclosure on Dartmoor, UK
- Drawing: The Purpose
- Theorising Tenure: A Landscape Analysis of Later Prehistoric Dartmoor
- Summary Report of the 2004 Excavations and Survey at Shovel Down
- Summary Report of the 2003 Excavations and Survey at Shovel Down
- Excavations of Bronze Age field systems, Shovel Down, Dartmoor, 2003