Projects

Abbeytown Harbour Project

Abbeytown Harbour Project A West Cumbria Archaeological Society Heritage Lottery Funded project, we will be concentrating on the fields to the south of the Abbey, focusing in the river edge area where we found the sandstone pier in the 2016 excavation. This page will include galleries on our progress during the project, whether it be […]

Abbey Town Survey and Excavation

Abbey Town Survey and Excavation Grampus has been working at Holme Cultram with members of the West Cumbria Archaeology Society since the summer of 2006. The main objectives of the survey and excavation was to try and find the original foundations as part of the Society’s investigation into the history and archaeology of the Abbey. […]

Blennerhasset Roman Fort

Grampus was recently asked to undertake a geophysical survey of Blennerhasset Roman Fort as part of the “From Fort To Farms” community project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The fort was discovered in 1984 through AP’s, with some geophysical survey completed on one of the corners of the fort.

Celebrating Seasons

The “Celebrating Seasons” project has been funded by the Grundtvig programme, which funds opportunities for adult education organisations, staff and learners. It is part of the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning programme and has 2 key objectives:

Discovering Derventio

Grampus was recently awarded money from the Heritage Lottery Fund to continue with our work in and around Papcastle. We have started straight away with our new project, “Discovering Derventio”, with a community excavation at the bottom of Sibby Brow on the Papcastle side of the River Derwent, which has uncovered a series of buildings.

EVEHD

FALESAF

Fostering Adult Learner Empowerment through Storytelling And Folklore FALESAF is an EU-funded project which promotes inter-generational and inter-cultural dialogue, and increases adult learners’ knowledge and experience through storytelling and folklore. 5 Partners from across Europe- Bulgaria, England, Iceland, Ireland and Germany- will host workshops, education sessions, storytelling events and pedagogical seminars which are open to […]

Green Village

Green Village films Green Village Curriculum The Green Village partnership was led by Grampus Heritage & Training, with a range of partners with the skills, knowledge and experience to get to grips with the European-wide problem of rural decline and decay; Devetaki Plateau Association (Bulgaria), Hylates / Kato Drys Community Council (Cyprus), Biuldungsstätte Dübener Heide […]

PRIDE

PRIDE: PARTNERSHIP FOR RURAL IMPROVEMENT & DEVELOPMENT IN EUROPE (project duration 1st Jan 2016-31st Dec 2017) PRIDE is supported by the EU Erasmus Plus programme and is an adult education staff mobility partnership. Participants are drawn from a UK consortium of partners from (mainly) Northern England and Scotland like WICAT, National Trust, Wardell Armstrong, Natural England, Yorkshire Dales NP, Earth […]

Klaustur á Íslandi – Monasticism in Iceland

Klaustur á Íslandi – Monasticism in Iceland Geophysical Survey in Iceland. Grampus Heritage are working with Professor Steinunn J Kristjánsdóttir, who has hosted our graduate archaeology groups for the past several years, on the “Monasticism in Iceland” project, taking magnetometers and resistivity equipment to do the geophysical survey of the sites being investigated. The aim of the project is to […]