Our Objective
Founded in 1996, the Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project is a long-term, multi-period, multi-disciplinary research project set up to investigate the entire range of human settlement and land-use in a typical north-west Norfolk parish, from the earliest times to the present day.
Currently one of the largest archaeological projects in Britain, our ongoing work encompasses multiple sites and a wide range of historical and archaeological techniques, from large-scale open area excavation and exploratory test pitting to map regression and standing building survey.
The Project is an exercise in democratic archaeology, believing that all those who participate have an equal say how the project is run, and we are strongly rooted in the local community, whose heritage we are engaged in studying and whose participation we encourage.
The Project is run by a team of directors, supervisors, trustees and committee members, during the summer we regularly have up to seventy excavators on site. Our archaeological fieldwork is concentrated in a six week summer season, but additional activities such as field walking take place at other times of the year.
We welcome all volunteers regardless of background and often no previous experience of archaeology is necessary as on-site training courses are run every week during the excavation as well as a wide array of other specialised training courses. The only charges we make are for the use of our campsite facilities, meals and taught courses, and as such our prices are kept to a minimum.