LAARC VIP

Well into the project now and continuing to make great advancements in both strands of the project.

General Finds.

Glynn and his team of volunteers this week finished off their second big site - 106BHS73 - which had produced some excellent Roman material last week and some equally impressive post medieval sherds this week.

To compliment their work, we held a roman pottery workshop in the Ceramic & Glass store with MOL archaeology specialist, Amy Thorpe and found out about amphorae, samian, burnished wares and mortarium.

Metal Store

The metal store tackled the tricky year of 1980 this week. The first half of the week saw vip volunteers join existing LAARC volunteers working on the huge site from Southwark Street - 15SKS80. There are over 2000 individual metal artifacts from the site,  and they were previous stored by object type but have now been reorganised into material then registered find number order. They now await packing with foam or acid free tissue.

There were no U3A volunteers this week, but there return next week when they start to tackle the general material from MSL87 - Mansell Street.

 If you would like to find out more about any of the sites, you can type in the sitecode on LAARC’s online catalogue:

http://www.museumoflondonarchaeology.org.uk/English/ArchiveResearch/ArchiveOnline/

and all LAARC’s photos for this and other projects can be found on flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/laarc/