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 The penultimate week of the first programme and we push on to reach our targets.

General finds.
With one week to go the vast Custom House site (CUS73) saw its final box of artefacts repacked, the latter boxes ranging from some nasty drain samples which needed to be scrutinised to some decorated wall plaster to some interesting tiles including one with a dog’s paw print.

  
Having completed this site, we swiftly moved on to the next two; Hibernia Wharf (HIB73) & Christ Church, Greyfriars (GF73), where hidden metal objects were rediscovered amid the pottery and animal bone and relocated to their correct place.
In addition to repacking and boxing this material we also decided to rearrange the shelves so as to fit the boxes more efficiently – a job that proved to be slightly more tricky than anticipated but extremely productive in the end.

Metal Finds
We’ve now almost completely filled the second length of new racking with all the sites up until 1984 having had their registered finds relocated. Sites processed this week include the mighty Horse Fair site in Kingston (HOR82-86) and the important Winchester Palace/Abbey site in Southwark (WP83 / WP84). Indeed, one object of particular interest, a bronze mould to form decorative lion motifs, went straight onto the object of the month winner’s list as curator’s choice and join’s the other 11 winner objects from previous months. They now compete in object of the year, which you can view by clicking here.