17 year-old student Marcus from Faversham dives into his work experience placement at the lab and archive, and explains the fascinating project he got involved with over the week.
Meet the volunteers! – Hands On Diary #5
Meet our wonderful volunteers who have given their time and energy to make completing the HS1 archive project possible!
Sharing local history through crafts! – Hands On Diary #4
Our events take inspiration from ancient artefacts to get creative and crafty with the public.
Waste then and now: The most common find in the archive… Hands On Diary #3
CSI Intern and MA History graduate Ewan talks us through the most abundant object in the HS1 archive, and how they point towards a bigger question of waste in collection storage and beyond.
High Speed Archaeology Finds – Hands on Diary #2
Emma dives into the HS1 archive project - the what, how, and why of archaeological archiving. We’re documenting CSI’s work in real time - find all our blogs so far here. Welcome back! It’s Emma, with another update on the project. The DIY is now completed. The studio is officially up and running. Excitingly, we … Continue reading High Speed Archaeology Finds – Hands on Diary #2
DIY is the name of the game – Hands On Diary #1
A new blog by the Hands on the Past project team. This month we started DIY renovations and had our first look at the Anglo-Saxon collection under the microscope.
Hands on the Past – Reintroducing CSI: Sittingbourne
As we prepare to reopen in spring 2022, meet the team behind the Hands on the Past project breathing new life into CSI: Sittingbourne.
Advent calendar 2021!
Check out what we been up to and the latest news from CSI: Sittingbourne in this year's Advent Calendar. We're busy getting ready to reopen in the new year. You can follow along with updates and news of our monthly events on Facebook and Twitter.
CSI: LEASE EXTENDED
The lease for the premises of CSI: Sittingbourne (located in The Forum) has been extended by owners Tesco. If other funding can be gained then the CSI: lab should be around for at least another 6 months, enough time to complete the other half of the finds from the site. It also gives all those visitors that … Continue reading CSI: LEASE EXTENDED
completed brooch
There were only a few brooches discovered at The Meads. The saucer brooch featured in an earlier post about conserved objects, and pictured above, has now been completed. The brooch was carefully mechanically cleaned using a scalpel to remove the bulk of the surface soil. The remainder was cleaned by swabbing with a paste of … Continue reading completed brooch
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