Current Archaeology Awards 2016

As the calendar year draws to a close, it’s time to cast your votes for the annual Current Archaeology Awards.

This is especially important if you’re a regular reader of the magazine as the awards are designed to reflect the interests of the readership, but if you’ve not read the magazine, happily that doesn’t preclude you from casting a vote!

As in previous years, there are several categories to vote for:

• Research Project of the Year
• Rescue Dig of the Year
• Book of the Year
• Archaeologist of the Year

The nominations for each award are as follows:

Research Project of the Year

• Digging Sedgeford: A people’s Archaeology
• Burrough Hill: Signs of Life in a Midlands hillfort
• Vindolanda: Revelations from the Roman frontier
• Bannockburn: Scotland’s seminal battlefield rediscovered
• Recapturing Berkeley Castle: One trench, 1,500 years of English history
• Rewriting the origin of the broch builders: Exploring fortifications and farming at Old Scatness

Information and articles on the above nominees can be found here.

Rescue Dig of the Year

• The Drumclay crannog-dwellers: revealing 1,000 years of lakeside living
• Death on Ridgeway Hill: how science unlocked the secrets of a mass grave
• Excavating Barrow Clump: soldier archaeologists and warrior graves
• Coast to coast: recording England’s vanishing heritage
• The London’s burning: a 17th century warship sunk in the Thames
• The Fenwick Treasure: Colchester during the Boudiccan War of Independence

Information and articles on the above nominees can be found here.

Book of the Year

• Celtic Art in Europe: Making Connections
• Thinking Big
• The Archaeology of Caves in Ireland
• Caithness Archaeology: aspects of prehistory
• Hadrian’s Wall, a history of archaeological thought
• Objects and Identities: Roman Britain and the North-Western Provinces

Information and articles on the above nominees can be found here.

Archaeologist of the Year

• Philip Crummy
• Vincent Gaffney
• Roberta Gilchrist

Information and articles on the above nominees can be found here.

So, once you’ve read about all the nominees, pop along to the voting page and cast your votes for your favourites! Winners will be announced at the Current Archaeology Live 2016 Conference at the end of February next year. If you missed last year’s conference and want to know what it’s all about, see the video below.