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Curatorial work experience

Today our Curator Andy has been joined by Auden, who is shadowing Andy as part of his school's careers offering.

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Extraordinary find!

An extraordinary discovery from deep in the Kent Archaeological Society archives this morning.

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Coins from Lympne

We had a very productive visit from Dr Sam Moorhead, former National Finds Advisor for Iron Age and Roman Coins at the The Portable Antiquities Scheme and David Holman to look over the coins from three seasons of excavations at Lympne.

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#FindsFriday: Ozengell buckle

As part of her year in industry placement, University of Reading student Holly has been illustrating our Ozengell collection. One Holly's favourite items thus far illustrated is this beautiful long rectangular Marzinik Type II.16 buckle with a long, rectangular buckle plate and narrow, D-shaped buckle frame.

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#FindsFriday: double snake finger ring

This lovely little double snake was found during excavations by the Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit (KARU) at Harrietsham Roman Villa located near the Parish church.

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#FindsFriday: Ozengell pot

Our curator Andy took the latest batch of the #Ozengell Anglo-Saxon collection over to CSI: Sittingbourne for conservation. This will be the final batch the CSI team will work on; including this lovely Early Medieval pot!

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#Ozengell conservation

Our friend Dana Goodburn-Brown who runs CSI: Sittingbourne and has been busy conserving our #ozengell Early Medieval collection has put forward a Go Fund Me to carry out more investigative conservation and knowledge dissemination on a number of Anglo-Saxon swords.

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Unidentified item from Roman site at Trossley

What do we think this might be? Similar to an item we posted regarding our Roman site at Trossley this as yet unidentified item features green fracturing material that on first glance appears to be glass.

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