Advanced Diploma in British Archaeology

Bachelor's degree

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    Bachelor's degree

  • Methodology

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This Advanced Diploma aims to give you a grounding in British Archaeology within the context of the particular period under investigation. You will further your understanding of the skills and techniques needed to recover, process and evaluate archaeological evidence. You will also research and write a 10,000-word dissertation in a topic of your choice in British Archaeology.

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Course programme

  • Introduction: an overview of chronology and the nature of evidence
  • Landscapes: theory and practice
  • Hillforts
  • Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland
  • Field Trip: Ridgeway Hillforts
  • Lowland settlement and farming
  • The Atlantic coastal zone
  • Northern Britain
  • Cross Channel connections and oppida
  • Practical Weekend I
  • Social re-ordering in the late Iron Age
  • The conquest
  • The role of the army: forts, frontiers and communications
  • Establishing Roman rule: administration and the Roman system
  • Towns of Roman Britain: the built environment
  • Economic systems
  • The Roman town of Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum)
  • Field Trip: Silchester and Reading Museum
  • Rural settlement patterns: farms, villas and villages
  • Practical Weekend II
  • Religion and ritual
  • Religious sites
  • The living and the afterlife
  • Roman industry, engineering and technology
  • Roman art and material culture
  • Saturday Visit: British Museum
  • Celtic art: craftsmanship and patronage
  • Later Prehistoric and Roman metalworking
  • Later Prehistoric pottery
  • Roman ceramics: the industries and their economic impact
  • Practical session: working with Roman ceramics
  • Group Project presentations: the end of Roman rule
  • Three assignments of up to 2,500 words.
  • A practical logbook of up to 4,000 words, to include two tasks. The tasks usually involve a practical element, for example a field trip and/or museum visit and/or archaeological fieldwork.
  • A 10,000-word dissertation on a topic agreed with the Course Director.
  • A statement of 200–300 words explaining why you wish to enrol on this course, including details of any previous experience in the subject and membership of relevant societies or groups.
  • Proof of your English language ability if you are a non-native English-speaking applicant (see below for more information).

Advanced Diploma in British Archaeology

Price on request