LAARC VIP

LAARC VIP Project - Week 3 (by Glynn Davis)

We are well underway with the VIP Programme now - everyone has settled in and we are making great headway with both projects! Volunteers this week have discovered a smorgasbord of artefacts through repackaging objects in both the Metal store and General finds!

General Finds:
As of Monday we completed updating general finds from the VIP’s first major site - Milk Street 1972! And without pause we launched into the next one - 106 Borough High Street 1973. As of today we have managed to repackage all of the Roman pottery from the site which was a real task considering the poor state the material was in. More decorated Samian pottery was found this week, but my personal favourite is a rare Roman Cheese Press (below left). At this rate 106BHS73 should be completed by the end of next week!

Metal Store:
Not only have volunteers done a great job with the general finds this week, but the metal store project has also come along in leaps and bounds. Adam and volunteers have managed to segregate and update Registered and General material from all 1970s excavations. Although unidentifiable iron seems to prevail in the metal store, there have been some exciting discoveries. An inscribed spoon and tankard from site CUT78 (Cutler Street PLA Warehouses) are two amazing post-Medieval, lead artefacts. Close-ups of these and photos of other artefacts and the VIP Project can be found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/laarc/

Roman Cemetery Sites

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