The working life of Museum of London

Whilst Londoners go to the polls today, we at the Museum’s Archaeological Archive have had our own voting competition over the last fortnight.

16 objects rediscovered during the 5th LAARC Volunteer Inclusion Project were narrowed down to 4 during the first rounds of voting and we can now reveal he winner is…

The Pilgrim Badge!

This badge was rediscovered by volunteer Magdalena, when going through metals from the Chaucer House (CH75) archive. A rare copper alloy badge (most are lead based), the saint depicted is likely to be St Edmund, seen in the middle, tied against a tree, whilst either side a posed archer shoots arrows at him.

And that really is it for LAARC VIP5. It’s been a fantastic project, with some fantastic teams and as a final thank you we held a little party yesterday, which was a grand event where each daily team finally got to meet other daily teams.

We’ll be back soon as VIP6 will be coming at ya at the start of June. Toodle-Pip