LAARC VIP10: Volunteer Profile – Solange

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Every week as part of our current Volunteer / Visitor Inclusion Project celebrating 10 years of the archaeological archive, we’re posting volunteer profiles allowing you to find out a little more about our excellent teams of volunteers. Today it’s Solange:

1) When did you join the volunteer programme and why?
October 2011 – the VIP9 project

2) What was your most memorable day whilst volunteering?
Day 1

Tuesday's team working on Reg Finds

3) What was your favourite object you discovered whilst volunteering?
I didn’t discover them, but I liked the roman sandal rosettes

Leather Roman shoe rosette

4) What’s your favourite part of the museum?
Roman galleries

Our younger visitors get to handle 2000 year old pottery

5) Upper galleries of lower?
Upper

6) Favourite year in London’s history?
1666 and the great fire (and 1969 – the year I was born)

7) Favourite Londoner?
Dr Johnson

8) Mortimer Wheeler or Indiana Jones?
Mortimer Wheeler

9) If you could dig anywhere in the world where would you excavate?
Dura Europos

 

10) What’s next for you after this project?
Vindolanda

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