A conservation workshop was held on Saturday the 30th January by Dana Goodburn of CSI. The session was funded by a generous grant from the Kent Archaeological Society. The worskshop gave an introduction to the practical conservation of archaeological finds, on-site best practice, lifting, cleaning, packaging and mounting of finds.
Handouts from the day can be found on the website of the South East Museum. They cover conservation assessment, silica gel and mounting.
Thanks Dana.
Highways England’s have launched a public consultation on the proposed lower Thames tunnel crossing at Gravesend in Kent. This proposal directly impacts on the Shorne area and those of you interested in the park and surroundings may want to have a say on the proposal.
The consultation is taking place between 26 January and 24 March 2016.
Dr. Sophie Adams, on behalf of the Maidstone Museum & Bentlif Art Gallery, will be holding a talk on the Boughton Malherbe Hoard and related reserach, this March. The Hoard includes Bronze Age axes, swords fragments, knives and over 350 other found objects. The talk will last 45 minutes and be followed by an hour to study the objects up close.
Canterbury Christ Church University is promoting their Archaeology programme and would like to invite you to come along to their free information evening to see the different ways to study Archaeology at the University. Continue reading
During November, at Randall Manor, Stan Matthews found a silver groat in the south-east corner of the site. We asked staff at the Portable Antiquities Scheme for help on its identification and Walter Ahmet, Finds Liaison Assistant for Heritage Conservation, Kent County Council, kindly gives us this description:
