Archaeology contact day

Are you fascinated by archaeology?  Have you found an interesting object (or just an intriguing sherd) in your garden?  And do you desperately want to know what it is?  Then the archaeology contact day is something for you.  Especially for the amateur archaeologists among us, but also for people who are involved in archaeology  professionally or voluntarily, the Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation co-organizes an archaeology contact day every year.

Flanders has many archaeological sites because of its very long and rich history.  Apart from people who are professionally involved in archaeology there are a lot of amateur archaeologists and volunteers who are committed to the preservation and the study of our archaeological patrimony.  The purpose of the East-Flemish archaeology contact day is to create a forum on a provincial level where amateur archaeologists, people with a general interest in archaeology and professional archaeologists meet and exchange ideas and knowledge.

The program consists of a mix of summarizing lectures and information sessions on various subjects.  Researchers  also take a close look at finds to situate and determine them.  Thus we explicitly address the volunteers and leisure time archaeologists.

The contact day for archaeology in East-Flanders is an organisation of the Verbond voor Oudheidkundig Bodemonderzoek in Oost-Vlaanderen (Vobov vzw, Association for Archaeological Soil Examination in East-Flanders) in collaboration with the Province of East-Flanders (Department of Conservation of Monuments and Cultural Patrimony) and the Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation.

The next archaeology contact day will be on Saturday 6 December 2008.