That's a wrap! The HS1 archive is complete so we celebrated with a fun day in partnership with Sittingbourne Heritage Museum and friends.
Learning by teaching – Hands On Diary #7
Interns Emma and Oli give an insight into what goes into creating the public events at CSI.
My work experience at CSI – Hands On Diary #6
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.
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.
a bit of a progress report…
Stats... The volunteers for this project have been of great help and have showed good progress so far. They have gained in confidence along the way and the results they are producing are brilliant. This section highlights the background and the type of people that are volunteering, or who have volunteered, in the past months. … Continue reading a bit of a progress report…
csi: on e-conservation
The online conservation magazine e-conservation has published a very good article about the CSI: lab in issue 12 for December 2009. The article has been written by French conservation intern Virginie Ternisien who spent four weeks as an intern with Dana Goodburn-Brown in the summer, and revisited to see the progress of the lab soon … Continue reading csi: on e-conservation
CSI: Sittingbourne 