>> Jess Rainsden (BSc (Hons) Archaeological
and Forensic Sciences, Bournemouth University):
I think archaeology is one of the most underrated
degrees; it pretty much includes every science,
it’s all the modern and ancient ways of
analysing people and places.
>> Dr Andy Brown (Leverhulme Early Career
Fellow, Bournemouth University):
Coming to BU is a great place for a start. Bournemouth’s
a great place to come and live. The course
is a really practically focused course and
you’ll get a lot of skills that are really
transferable across the board wherever you
go in archaeology.
>> Dan Carter (PhD student Bournemouth University/Project
Officer AC Archaeology):
We teach them about general excavation skills, so how to excavate
features and also how to record them
as the recording is just as important as the excavation
itself. There is no point us digging archaeology
if we can’t create a record that lasts for
people to examine.
>> Alison Reep (BA (Hons) Archaeology, Bournemouth
University):
The course covers things from Roman Britain and then also post-excavation,
so you’re not just out in the trenches but also the subject behind it as well.
>> Dr Derek Pitmam (Lecturer in Archaeology,Bournemouth University): All of our courses
with archaeology in the title will do a mandatory
five weeks of field work training at the end
of the first year and they will go out to
a site like this where they will investigate,
in this instance, Medieval industry, but on
other sites we’ve had Iron Age settlements,
cemetaries, graveyards, Roman villas and temples
and mausoleums, so a range of possibilities.
>> Tom Brown (BA (Hons) Archaeology and Anthropology,
Bournemouth University):
“On my first year,we did find a big slab stone, suspended on
three smaller stones with a sheep skull
facing north and south with a child’s skeleton
buried underneath it which was very mysterious,
we had no idea what was going on with that.
>> Amara Reed (BA (Hons) Archaeology and Anthropology,
Bournemouth University):
I couldn’t be more happy with the course, how the course ended
up being and the support we get from our lecturers
and from our course leaders and everything;
it’s really good.
>>Tom Brown (BA (Hons) Archaeology and Anthropology,
Bournemouth University):
They’re all veryexperienced. They’ve all done a lot of whatever
it is
they are particularly specialised in, as well as a broad range of everything.
>> Dan Carter (PhD student Bournemouth University/Project
Officer AC Archaeology:
At the moment it’s a very good time to want to be an archaeologist;
there’s a lot of big projects kicking off
in the commercial world.
>>Dr Derek Pitmam (Lecturer in Archaeology,
Bournemouth University):
Many of the students will go off to placements in their second
year and
we even offer a third year training option with commercial archaeologists to give
a real sense of the development of archaeology
and how they can go out into the profession.
>>Tom Brown (BA (Hons) Archaeology and Anthropology,
Bournemouth University):
If you want to learnpractical, usable skills and get a hands-on
idea of the past,
then Bournemouth is fantastically good.
>> Alison Reep (BA (Hons) Archaeology, Bournemouth
University):
I would recommend the Archaeology degree at Bournemouth, it’s just a great
experience.
