Expert advice for budding archaeologists

A series of workshops on archaeological finds will be held this spring at Ross Heritage Centre and Hereford Museum Resource and Learning Centre, including one led by an expert from the BBC Antiques Roadshow programme.

On Saturday, March 8 at the Hereford Museum Resource and Learning Centre, Derek Hurst will be leading a workshop on medieval pottery.

On Saturday, March 29, again at Hereford, Karl Lee is leading a workshop on flint tools. He is running a second workshop on Saturday, May 10 at Ross Heritage Centre.

Also at Ross Heritage Centre, on Saturday, April 5, from 10am until 1pm, there is a workshop called Ecofacts being led by Liz Pearson who will show what people can learn from the remains of plants, fruit and seeds found on archaeology sites. She is doing the same workshop at the Museum Resource and Learning Centre in Hereford on Saturday, April 19.

Alan Jacobs will be leading a Prehistoric and Medieval Pottery Workshop on Saturday, April 12 from 10am until 3pm, at Ross bringing along examples of prehistoric and medieval pots and describing how they were made and used.

A Post Medieval Pottery Workshop with BBC Antiques Roadshow expert Lars Tharp is being held on Saturday, April 26, from 10am until 1pm. Lars is inviting people to bring in broken bits of pottery to have them identified.

Saturday, May 17, at Ross and June 7 at the Museum Resource and
Learning Centre in Hereford there will be a small finds workshops led by Judy Stevenson, Herefordshire Council's collections and access officer, to look at objects like tools, weapons and jewellery.

Organised by the River Wye Preservation Trust as part of the Landscape Origins of the River Wye Trust, all of the workshops are limited to 15 people.

Workshops are free but places need to be booked.

For further details about the Ross workshops contact Mary Sinclair Powell on 01432 260675.

To make bookings for all of the workshops please contact Rebecca Roseff on 01432 343262.