The Council for Independent Archaeology
is the only society in British archaeology that aims
to bring together ‘independent’ archaeologists
– that is those who are independent of government
funding: it includes loosely all ‘amateur’
archaeologists and those in local archaeological societies
or ‘community’ archaeology.
Next meeting
 The next one-day conference will be held at
Monmouth on the 30th August 2008, and will celebrate
the work of the Monmouth Archaeological society and
its leader Steve Clarke.
For over 30 years now, the society has
been active in Monmouth and its region and during the
course of the day, Steve and his team will tell us about
some of the campaigns the society has waged, and the
digs they have carried out, and will then walk round
Monmouth and show us some of the sites, and also the
headquarters where the writing up in in progress.
For those who wish to stay the full weekend, it will
be possible to see some of the major sites in the area
on Sunday, including Tintern Abbey, Chepstow Castle
and the Caerwent Roman town.
The full programme will be available
shortly: to be put on the mailing list for information,
please email Kevan
Fadden, or Steve
Clarke.
The next full weekend Congress will be in 2009, and
is tentatively fixed for Derbyshire and the Peak district,
concentrating on Industrial archaeology and the role
of the amateur archaeologist.
Conference and meetings
 We
hold conferences
and meetings to bring independent archaeologists
together. This is the only national opportunity for
local societies to come together to learn about the
problems and achievements of other societies. We hope
to see you at one of them - ideas for new topics for
discussion always welcome!
Right: Fiona Wilson, the
Chairman of the East Riding Archaeological Society,
who hosted our recent Congress, here displays
some of the prehistoric types of wheat that she
has been growing.
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We help
We help local independent archaeologists
to do archaeology notably by the production of our low-cost
Resistivity Meter.
Production has now ceased, but click here to be put
on the waiting list
We encourage
We work for better
collaboration between amateurs and professionals
- notably in our very successful
'Valletta' campaign.
Find an archaeological Society
Click here
for the Handbook of Archaeology, which gives details
of local societies, and advice on where to find suitable
digs.
The Valletta Convention
The Valletta Convention of the Council of Europe appears
to aim to outlaw independent archaeology. Read
here our analysis of this deeply flawed Convention.
Background
Click
here to read about the background to the council
and our past activities
Contact us
Click
here to find out who we are.
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