Tag Archives: artefacts

Mausoleum cottage dig: end of week one

Posted on 31st July 2016 by Ruiha Smalley

Here are some photos from the end of the first week of digging the cottage site. A number of finds went on display at the Maidstone Museum’s event for the 2016 Festival of Archaeology.  

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Pottery workshops

Posted on 16th June 2016 by Ruiha Smalley

Pottery workshops with Nigel Macpherson Grant were held this week at the National Trust South Lodge Barn in Cobham.  They were funded by the Kent Archaeological Society. Pottery excavated from the site of Randall Manor was laid out in sequence … Continue reading →

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Boughton Malherbe Hoard

Posted on 27th January 2016 by Ruiha Smalley

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 … Continue reading →

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Photogrammetry results from Otto Bagi

Posted on 2nd December 2015 by Ruiha Smalley

In October Otto Bagi came to Shorne to use photogrammerty techniques on a couple of our more fragile artefacts. His preliminary results are now in. Take a look yourself by clicking on the links below… Lead flask Islamic glass Carved … Continue reading →

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PASt Explorers: finds recording in the local community

Posted on 26th October 2015 by Ruiha Smalley

The Portable Antiquities Scheme’s 2015 conference celebrates the launch of PASt Explorers, the Scheme’s five year Heritage Lottery Funded project to recruit and train volunteers from local communities, increasing the capacity of the PAS to record archaeological objects found by … Continue reading →

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