Event: Kerkhove 2016 (OMD)

In what has been one of the largest excavations in Flanders, the Ghent University Archaeology department and its spin-off company Gate Archaeology, descended upon the village of Kerkhove near the river Scheldt and excavated some 8500 m², starting 4 meters below ground level and using both time honored and state of the art research techniques. As an integral part of the project, considerable attention was given to interacting with the wider audience, e.g. by extensively using the social media, by organising on site guided tours and by publishing a book. The annual Heritage Day (Open Monumentendag) was a perfect opportunity to take things one step further still, by offering lectures, on site guided tours, demonstrations of several surveying techniques, flint knapping, an array of activities to keep the little ones occupied, and the obligatory visit of a lost-in -time troop of Roman soldiers. Enjoy the pics, and do visit the Kerkhove website (https://archeologie-kerkhove.be/) !