1. Showcase the work SHARP are doing
2. Raise funds to enable us to:
1. Educate local schools about their local archaeology and history
2. Publish monographs for the archaeological community on the learnings from the sites
3. Attract a wider audience of visitors. See what is being achieved - "family friendly" archaeology
The outline of proposed activities
1. Launch and events at the beginning of August, themed on “The Long 8th Century" and focussed around the Sedgeford Dig
2. With the 100th anniversary of the end of the 1st World War, a 1918 themed event at the end of October/early November which will include the work done on the 1st World War airfield at Sedgeford
August Event
1. We agreed that we needed the book of the story of the dig to be updated in a form that was more "accessible" to the general public. Neil/Gary to find examples of the kind of booklet we should emulate
2. A drinks event on the 31st July to launch the event and raise funds for the programmes leading through to the Open Day on Saturday, 4th August. Jeffrey to arrange and book drinks party venue (The Hoste?)
3. Book Sedgeford Village Hall for an exhibition and for a day/evening of talks - Friday, 3rd August? Gary to book
4. Begin liaising with local schools to agree their involvement - Gary to follow up.
trips to the site recognising that we would need to fund the transport costs - a Schools Day?
allocate projects to schools which may be culminated in a children's exhibition. Create a prize(s) for best written projects
5. Encourage people who have inherited or made "finds" to come and have them assessed by experts
6. Make sure we involve local history groups - Wells, Docking, Thornham, Brancaster
7. A balance throughout this programme of academic and family friendly
1918
Series of talks à la the Book Festival in Burnham market. A combination of international content and local relevance:
• Professor Otte of UEA- Book "July Crises" descent into War 1914
• The Sedgeford Airfield helped, of course by Gary's book
• The Zeppelin attacks on the North Norfolk Coast
• Maybe we should get someone from the Norfolk regiment to come and talk about their role in the closing stages of the war?
• Bircham "practice" trenches
• as new books will be coming out on 1918 in the next few months we should look at other authors who may be prepared to participate
Other
1. An evening at Thornham Village Hall showing the Time Team film on the Brancaster Fort along with the lecture given at Sedgeford church on the Roman Forts of Norfolk to set it into context. Simon Bax to check with Channel 4 whether we can borrow this.
2. The monographs we are aiming to publish are:
on the Sedgeford settlement itself
the cemetery and the human remains analysis
the cereal processing facilities
3. Plan the PR Programme - EDP, Radio Norfolk, Current Archaeology
4. As the Anglo-Saxon cereal processing plant and farming innovations of the time would have a major impact on farming in our region, maybe there is an opportunity to get sponsorship to support some kind of exhibition at The Royal Norfolk Show.