Late Roman Knife Handle found at Bifrons Anglo-Saxon cemetery
A lovely late Roman Knife Handle found at Bifrons Anglo-Saxon cemetery and part of the Kent Archaeological Society Collection held at Maidstone Museums.
Curatorial work experience
Today our Curator Andy has been joined by Auden, who is shadowing Andy as part of his school's careers offering.
#FindsFriday: Romano-British pottery print
We have this lovely paw print in our Romano-British villa excavation at Trosley which we believe may be a badger paw print!
Ceramic building material from Trosley Roman Villa
Our Curator received back our nine boxes of Ceramic Building Material from Trosley Roman Villa from the specialist today!
#FindsFriday: Missing Ozengell coin?
It's #FindsFriday and our curator Andy has been doing a bit of detective work to trace a "missing" coin from the Ozengell Anglo-Saxon collection.
#MuseumMonday: Moatenden Priory excavation archive
For #MuseumMonday the society is pleased to announce it has acquired the archive of excavations carried out at Moatenden Priory, Headcorn between 1990 - 1993.
Extraordinary find!
An extraordinary discovery from deep in the Kent Archaeological Society archives this morning.
#FindsFriday: Percy Paine collection modelling
We recently received a donation of archaeological archives from the Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit in which was included the collection of Percy Paine.
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.
#MuseumMonday: Behind the Scenes
Our curator Andy has been busy repacking the archive from our Trosley Roman villa project (2022-2023).
#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.
#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.
#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!
#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.
Cataloguing the Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit Archive
We have had a new student work placement, Eleanor with us this week from Invicta Grammar School who has been helping our curator Andy catalogue the Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit Archive.
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.