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ACE ARCHAEOLOGY CLUB
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Archaeology for everyone.
ACE IS CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF FRUITFUL ACTIVITIES - see Newsletter Page for details and pictures.
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... ACE ARCHÆOLOGY CLUB is for all people with interests in all aspects of practical archæology, from surveying, experimental archæology, field walking, participation in excavations to archive research, from palæolithic to more recent times.
. ACE (which stands for Archæology Club of Eggesford) is affiliated to the Council for British Archaeology.
. ACE Archæology is based in the Mid Devon area but our interest, activities and membership (which includes amateurs and professionals) cover a larger area from Exmoor to Dartmoor.
. ACE organizes a regular programme of practical activities. This has included field walking (the report on the extensive flint scatter
dating from the palæolithic at Handsford Farm will be published soon), a survey of the remaining structures on Winkleigh Airfield (expanded second issue of the report is to be published soon) and a training dig which was run alongside a landscape project on Seckington House and estate. The club has gained practical experience in iron smelting, neolithic pottery making and firing, iron and silver work, flint knapping, building round houses and more. There are regular visits to places of archæological interest.
. The Club also actively supports the Teigncombe Bronze Age round house excavation which is the subject of the Dartmoor Archaeology and Bracken Project. This year's work has discovered that this round house may be the most important round house in Britain, with the greatest number of pottery finds at floor level.
. ACE is also significantly involved in the Winkleigh House Scouts project, which is a funded project to encourage local residents to survey (with help) and research the history of their homes. ACE is also researching ancillary topics such as the changes to street names within the village. The results of this project are being recorded on North Devon On Disk, so that it can be made available to everyone.
. We aim to apply the highest academic and professional rigour to all our research, with publication of our findings as an essential aim.
. We welcome members of any age and with any level of archæological ability or knowledge. Full training will given if necessary.
. We meet once a month formally, but there are additional opportunities to be involved with our longer term projects more frequently, together with other visits. There is a newsletter published twice a year with diary dates published four times a year.
. . Membership is £8 a year for individuals (£3 if under 16), and £12 for family membership.
. . Contact ACE, as listed on our CONTACTS Page, for an application form.
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