Our Current Programmes

In this blog former volunteer Stephen Morley talks about his involvement in Elder Archaeology and Rochdale Development Agency's 'Broad Filed Slopes' Project and the impact this opportunity has had on his life. Stephens first site as a Freelance Archaeologist. In the spring of 2023, during a difficult period of unemployment, I applied for a training course in archaeology hosted and ran by the Rochdale Development Agency and the University of Salford. The course promised an int

In September Elder Archaeology kicked off our work for the North Pennines National Landscape team on the Land Of Lead and Silver project, which is funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and Historic England. The first sessions took place at Nenthead Mines, where participants joined a two-day workshop on photogrammetry and drone flight. These hands-on sessions introduced modern digital recording techniques used in archaeology, allowing attendees to create detailed 3D mod

From Stromness beach the sun sits over Hoy. Elder Archaeology, CIC recently embarked on a journey up to the Orkney Islands for the John Rae Society’s ‘Fit For the Future Brief Oral Histories Pilot’ funded by the NLHF. The project saw Dr Colin Elder and Jenny Addis travelling around the stunning Orkney mainland in search of peoples stories. The project is aimed at exploring the rich history connecting the Orkney Islands to Northern Canada through the Hudson Bay Companies (HBC)

The Broadfield Slopes programme is an on-going community archaeology programme that includes the Big Dig Rochdale 1.0 & 2.0, several...

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