Trainee Supervisor Course

A new, advanced course designed for those with past Field School experience.
6 ECTS / 3 Semester Credits are available on this course. (SU413)

The Achill Archaeological Field School's Trainee Supervisor Course is an exiting advanced course open to students with prior Field School experience, not necessarily gained at the Achill Archaeological Field School. The course is designed to offer a deeper level of training and is offered to students who can demonstrate a combination of skills including intuitive understanding of archaeological procedures, good work ethics, the ability to listen to and understand instruction, and the right temperament to become Site Supervisors.

The Trainee Supervisor Course is a unique learning experience which builds on the skills gained during previous Field School attendance. Candidates are therefore only selected when they have demonstrated a good understanding of the basic principals of excavation.

The Trainee Supervisors will be responsible for a particular area of the excavation and work with the director to ensure that the area is correctly excavated and recorded. The Trainee Supervisor will lead a team of students through the process of excavation, and be responsible for maintaining discipline, providing training to the students in the basic skills of excavation, and compiling the site archive for their area of the site.  Each area will be a new excavation, and so the Trainee Supervisor will oversee the entire process of the excavation from laying out the trench and removing the sod, through to the completion of the excavation.

The Trainee Supervisor will then be instructed in the basic procedures of post excavation, learning how to prepare the written and drawn records to be placed into a permanent archive, how to digitise plans in AutoCad 2008, and how to write a stratigraphic report. At the end of the course the Trainee Supervisor will have compiled a complete report of their area to full publication standard. When the report is published in 2011 each Trainee Supervisor will be named as the co-author of the section of the report covering their particular area. This level of training leading to a full, peer reviewed, publication credit is simply unavailable elsewhere, and would provide a major advantage to the Trainee Supervisor during Job Applications or Applications for Post Graduate Study.

Academic Credits are available on this course

SU413 Data Analysis
Digitised Section drawing and plan.

Field Skill tuition is provided in the following areas:-
 Excavation:   

Trowelling, Finds recording, Planning, Section drawing, levelling,
Context sheet, Photography, Sampling.
Finds: Processing, Drawing and Database entry.
Drawing:
Profiles, Wall drawing and section drawing.
Survey: Plane table, Level, Theodite, EDM/Total station, GPS and AutoCAD

Dates:-      April  25th - July 2nd
                 June 27th - September 2nd

Duration:  10 Weeks  

Course:  € 4250    

For additional course details and how to apply, please contact Stuart Rathbone, Director of Excavations

stuart@achill-fieldschool.com.

Phone:- 00353 9843564

or by post:- The Administrator, Achill Archaeological Field School, Archaeology Centre, Dooagh, Achill Island. County Mayo.Ireland