I am delighted to be supporting the Pacitti Company with their Dig and Sow project in Hadleigh, Essex taking place on Saturday 8th October, 2011.
Pacitti are creating On Landgaurd Point (or OLP) - a range of region-wide participatory projects for the East of England as part of Artists Taking the Lead (Arts Council England) commissions at the heart of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. OLP is a project about HOME. It explores how we construct our diverse notions of home, what home means to each of us, and what it means to host others in our home.
On Landguard Point’s Dig and Sow invites members of the public to participate in a search for traces and even fragments of home, and to consider how much we really know about our own homes. With 205 one-metre square test-pit excavations planned to take place in six clustered locations across the region - one in each county of the East of England. Communities, families and budding archaeologists are encouraged to take part in this unique opportunity, under the supervision of one of the UK’s leading Archaeological teams. This is the perfect excuse to gather friends and loved ones together to undertake something truly adventurous!
Dig and Sow is coming to Hadleigh!!
The digs are free to take part in, they will take place in people’s own back gardens, and will take place over one day. OLP are looking to find 34 sites to excavate during Dig and Sow as the community of Hadleigh hosts Essex’s contribution to this mass archaeological excavation event as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
Dr. Carenza Lewis (University of Cambridge and ‘Time Team’ presenter/contributor) and her team at Access Cambridge Archaeology will lead this programme of activity providing expertise and support to oversee the digs.
“Digging into the ground provides an umbilical link from the present to the past. Trade, migration and the many waves of settlers over the centuries are physically represented by finds from different places – we expect to find pottery which has been made and/or used by Britons, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Normans, Huguenot refugees, Dutch engineers. Other objects may range from Ipswich-made Saxon pottery to modern Danish Lego to eighteenth-century Chinese porcelain.”
Dr. Carenza Lewis (University of Cambridge and Channel 4’s ‘Time Team’).
Participation in this part of OLP requires participants to register an interest to be involved, so we can share information on how to make your dig; share what you should do if you discover something; and so that everyone can stay safe by following a set of best practice guidelines.
Timed to coincide with Hadleigh's inaugural Art Trail the Dig and Sow project will take place on one day with a planned celebratory gathering at the end of the day at the newly created arts and community hub at Hadleigh Old Fire Station (HOFS).
If you’re interested in taking part contact On Landguard Point’s or ask me for more details. And do please pass this on to anyone in Hadleigh you think may be interested in taking part.
Dig and Sow has a growing number of supporters. Please lend your support to this fantastic project. We are planning information sessions at the Fire Station and Morrison's (dates & times to be confirmed).
I really hope you will want to be involved and am looking forward to hearing from you.
OLP’s Terms and Conditions and more information regarding On Landguard Point events please visit www.onlandguardpoint.com
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