Aberdeen YAC
Aberdeen YAC is open to everyone aged 8–16 years. YAC clubs get involved in all sorts of activities, including visiting and investigating archaeological sites and historic places, trying out traditional crafts, taking part in excavations, and lots more.
At Aberdeen YAC we are usually out and about for our meetings, but we will meet online if the weather is bad. We usually meet once a month with a break over the summer. A team of volunteers runs the club: if you want to know more about how we recruit YAC volunteers and make sure children at YAC clubs are well looked after, check out our FAQs.
If you’d like to get involved with Aberdeen YAC, get in touch with the team using the details below:
Contact: Claire Smith
Tel: 07903 818180
Email: yacaberdeen@gmail.com
Our two favourite activities at Aberdeen YAC are fieldwalking and digging. We are very lucky to be regularly welcomed by our local community groups to take part.
We wrap up in our warmest clothes for some winter fieldwalking looking specifically for mesolithic flints, although we have come across a wide range of items like pottery, glass bottles, coins and clay pipes.
In summer, we love to get out on a dig and we have had the privilege in recent years of digging for the remains of a Mesolithic site, a medieval castle, a former school, and a lost abbey (not all on the same site!).
At Aberdeen YAC we love putting our detective skills to the test to discover new things about archaeology. In some of our more alternative experimental archaeology, we have tried our hand at knitting to see how it was used in World War Two for codes to pass information about troop movements, we have baked Ancient Egyptian bread using a recipe found on the wall of a pyramid and made our own stone circles out of biscuits!
