Institute of Archaeology
Gordon Square, London, WC1H
Contact: Sarah Dhanjal
Tel: 02076794717
s.dhanjal@ucl.ac.uk
This is a club which meets once a month on a Saturday for children aged nine and upwards and offers a range of activities including the chance to try your hand at excavation.

 

Liaison Officer, AIA, School of Archaeological Studies, The University, Leicester LE1 7RH.
AIA@le.ac.uk
This organisation publishes the Industrial Archaeolology Review and IA News. The Annual Conference, Overseas Field Weeks, The Ironbridge Weekend, and other conferences address specific interests and problems relating to the industrial heritage. The IRIS Initiative records the industrial period buildings, monuments and landscapes, in conjunction with local Sites & Monuments Registers.

 

Archaeology is a way of learning about people who lived in the past, where they lived, what they ate, what they believed and the effects they had on the environment by studying the physical remains they have left behind. The evidence can include artefacts such as pottery, tools or jewellery which can be made from materials like clay, bone, stone, wood or metal. Archaeology also uncovers evidence of site occupation,such as standing buildings or the remains of buildings that have later been buried underground, evidence of farming, and environmental remains such as plant remains.

The history of Camden is built up in a series of layers of occupation and by digging back through the layers the story of the borough and the people who have lived here can be pieced together where no other record of them remains.