"Cambustica" field school takes between July 2 and July 29, 2012 and offers two sessions. The program includes 60 hours working on the archaeological site, 30 hours laboratory work, 20 hours additional courses (optional) and 2 excursions in the weekends (Sunday and Saturday).

Session Dates:

July 2 - July 15, 2012

July 16 - July 29, 2012

Application Deadline:

May 31, 2012

Minimum age: 16

Minimum length of stay: One session - 15 days

Number of places available: 10

Language: English

Experience required: None

The Field School training (Excavation, Field Planning and Section Drawing) will take place for 2 five-day weeks. The breakfast (including the Weekends) is at 7.00 AM. The work at the site begins at 8.00 AM and finishes at 1.30 PM. The lunch is at 2 o'clock.

The daily laboratory work (documentation of the artifacts discovered from the site) will take place between 4.00 and 7.00 PM from Monday till Friday for two weeks.

The additional courses (Field Survey, Illustration, Ceramic and Metal restoration) will be organized in the afternoons between 4.00 and 8.00 PM for one weeks. The length of each course is 5 working days. These courses are optional and each participant is allowed to take only one of them.

The Field trips. The program includes two excursions in the weekends to the most attractive places in the area.

In Saturday we're visiting the touristic town Belogradchik and the impressive Belogradchik rocks and fortress. The lunch is in a folklore restaurant in the town. In the afternoon the trip continue to the Magura cave where can be seen the earliest wall paintings in Europe.

In Sunday we organize trip to the neighbor Serbia. This travelling is exclusively interesting as only 8 km from the border is located the palace of Emperor Galerius - well preserved whit spectacular museum. The trip include as well as a lunch in traditional Serbian restaurant.

Traveling / access to the site. The archaeological site is located in the modern North-West Bulgaria near the town of Dimovo. Dimovo may be reached by bus from Sofia (Bulgaria). The nearest air terminal is Sofia (Bulgaria, 150 km). If participants arrive at Sofia airport, a transfer to the archaeological sites may be arranged by request. Individual or group transfers' price may vary depending on number of passengers from 30 to 120 EUR.