Author Archives: Ruiha Smalley

Enigmatic lead flask from Randall Manor

A number of spectacular finds have been discovered during years of community archaeology excavation at the site of Randall Manor. In 2011, at the end of the excavation season, a metal detector sweep revealed the non-ferrous signal of complete lead … Continue reading →

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Important Mesolithic sites for North West Kent

Mesolithic sites in Kent are less well understood than sites from other prehistoric periods therefore evidence of two substantial sites is important for our understanding. The first is in Shorne Woods Country park, where two Lottery-funded archaeology projects have been … Continue reading →

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Thanet Survey

Next week (2/3 September) we will be working on the Thanet Survey. Richard will be running 2 days down on Thanet to lay out the grid, for the geophysics survey to follow. We will meet at Shorne at 9am on Wednesday … Continue reading →

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Soil sampling

Archaeological work includes taking soil samples from a site and processing them at a later date. Last week volunteers made the most of some good weather to get samples processed from Randall Manor  – which included a clean out of … Continue reading →

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