CALive16! The Award Winners

Once again, the first day of the Current Archaeology Live  conference this year was concluded with a short Awards ceremony. These awards are especially important as they are voted for by the readership of the magazine, and thus reflect their interests. The awards were sponsored by Historic England, Oxbow Books, Oxford University Press and Export and General Insurance Services Ltd.

The first award, ‘Photo of the Year’ , was sponsored by Andante Travel, and judged by Adam Stanford, of Aerial-Cam. It was won by Shuo Huang, for a stunning photograph of the Easter Island statues.

As in previous years, there were 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 were as follows, the winner of each is indicated in Bold Type:

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

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

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

Archaeologist of the Year

• Philip Crummy
• Vincent Gaffney
• Roberta Gilchrist

Information and articles on all the above nominees can be found on the Current Archaeology  web site. Our hearty congratulations go out to all the winners!