Digging for Shakespeare: Field Experience in England anyone??

Howdy,
I would like to take the time to share with you an upcoming archaeology volunteering opportunity for anyone interested in traveling to England from April-November 2011.
 Last summer I volunteered at the New Place archaeology site (Shakespeare's Home), in Stratford Upon Avon. The project is called ‘Digging for Shakespeare’ and was supervised by two really awesome grad students from Birmingham University. As well, many of the volunteers I worked with were experienced archaeologists/ professors that lived close to the site. It was like a free field seminar course, and I gained a lot of hands on experience:  how to use excavation tools like a trowel, sifter  (harder then you’d think), identifying stratigraphy changes, or the difference between medieval from Victorian sediments,  and discovering how to identify fire pits, post molds, rock from bones, medieval pottery from Victorian pottery. I also got to assist in drawing site maps, laying out datum points. I got to clean, organize, label the artifacts I discovered. My favorite duty on site believe it or not was explaining to the Nash House museum visitors the history of the site.  The majority of the excavation site is viewed by the visitors to the museum, which they view from a walk way platform, but there was an interactive activity area where each visitor, particularly really young kids, got to test out archaeology tools and clean medieval and Victorian artifacts. I really enjoyed explaining the importance of archaeology and what archaeology is to the visitors.
SUPER FUN... anyone who is interested in John Nash, Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare, or how archival research leads to excavating sites would loveeeeeeeeeee this town!

For people who are interested in wanting to know more about the excavation and how to get involved email:

Chloe Malendewicz (Chloe.Malendewicz@shakespeare.org.uk)

website to browse: http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/