The working life of Museum of London

Week 3 and the project builds momentum.

More work continued on both general and registered finds this week as we updated several site archives from 1974’s excavations. Starting on Saturday, our two volunteers worked on finds from two sites whose objects had been amalgamated for publication; Bonded Warehouse, Montague House (BWMC74) & Hibernia Chambers, Montague Close (HC74). Finds included some impressive Roman stamped ceramics, coins and bone hairpins.

On Monday, three volunteers worked on registered finds from a new site, Harp Lane (HL74), starting with copper, iron, stone and ceramic artifacts. The other two volunteers that day continued with the pottery from the general finds project’s first site, Hibernia Chambers (HC74), which included several nice medieval pots. The day ended with a brief visit to our ceramics and glass store to take a look at medieval tiles and pots.

Tuesday’s volunteers started with general finds, finishing off the pottery from HC74 and repacking the entire amount of building material from the site. The afternoon was spent finishing off the ceramic, charcoal, wood and bone objects from Harp Lane (HL74). They then started checking the abundance of Roman coins from The Highway, E1 (LD74) This day also ended with a brief visit to the ceramics and glass store where we looked at complete building material examples as well as medieval pottery.

Wednesday’s volunteers from the University of 3rd Age and Mossbourne Academy tackled the iron registered finds from their site, Shoreditch Park (NNR05). Four boxes of iron were packed followed by the one box of copper left over from last week. For more information about their session visit their wiki site by clicking here.

Thursday’s volunteers repacked a whole site’s general finds in the morning – Canvin Street, Hammersmith (CVS74); pottery, building material, glass and tobacco pipe, were all sorted out, rebagged and reboxed. Certain objects were identified as registered finds including the metal printing plates used to print the site’s publication. These artifacts were processed in the afternoon along with the rest of the roman coins from The Highway, E1 (LD74)

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