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#FindsFriday: Recording the Witch Bottle from Margate onto the Portable Antiquities Scheme Database
Our curator Andy has just finished recording the Witch Bottle from Margate onto the Portable Antiquities Scheme Database.
Update on Cliftonville witch bottle
A quick update from our curator on the Witch Bottle which was taken to Canterbury Christ Church University and X-Rayed.
Mystery antler object
We have a bit of a #mystery item on our hands today! This small antler object, decorated with ring and dots on both sides has been handed to our curator Andy for identification ahead of it being recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme with Kent's Finds Liaison Officer.
#FindsFriday: Possible late 18th century 'Witch Bottle'
It's #findsfriday! Today we have something slightly different which recently came across our Curator Andy's desk; a possible late 18th century 'Witch Bottle'!
#NationalIllustrationDay and #FindsFriday
Today is #nationalillustrationday as well as being #findsfriday. National Illustration Day, an initiative by the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration , is an annual celebration of the pictures that are essential to our lives and the brilliant people who make them.
#findsfriday: readying objects for x-ray
Join our society Curator this as he discusses some objects being taken for x-rays next week and why this is so important!
#FindsFriday: Bartmann jug
It's #FindsFriday! We have a new student placement, Max from Five Acre Wood School who has been helping to catalogue the archive of Dr Brian Philp. This lovely little #bartmann jug is just one of the many finds from the archive which we hope to showcase in the coming months!
#FindsFriday: Metal Detected objects
It's #FindsFriday! Today our curator Andy has been working through some of the Metal Detected objects recovered during work at Badlesmere on the Lees Court Estate, all the way back in 2019!
Mystery metal detecting fines
A busy day for our curator today; with help from Archivist Craig all of the Flint from 2024's excavation at the Lees Court Estate has been collected and brought back to our office for cataloguing. Once weighed and counted, the material will be sent to a lithic specialist for reporting!
Lees Court Estate mystery object
A #mystery object from our work on the Lees Court Estate earlier this year.
Ozengell collection illustrations
Our #illustration student placement Holly has been hard at work finalising some of the Ozengell objects for her portfolio.
#FindsFriday: Roman glassmaking at Trosley?
It's #FindsFriday and today we have something a little bit special. Our volunteer John has been busy cataloguing the bulk finds from our Trosley Bathhouse excavation from 2023. During this he has come across this interesting little object labelled only as a vitrified fragment.
#FindsFriday: Ozengell bow brooch
It's #FindsFriday! This bow brooch (so called due to the raised Bow in the centre) is one of a pair excavated by the Thanet Archaeological Unit (now @Trust For Thanet Archaeology) at the Ozengell / Lord of the Manor Cemetery Site.
#FindsFriday: 4th to mid 5th century Roman military buckle
It's #FindsFriday! Check out our Curator as he discusses a small 4th to mid 5th century Roman military buckle found by metal detectorist Neil Green during Studying History and Archaeology in Lympne's recent excavation, at which the KAS assisted. Andy is in the process of cataloguing all of the registered finds from 2024 ahead of planned publication in 2025.
#MuseumMonday: Copper-alloy sword pommel
Its #MuseumMonday! On Friday 13th our curator Andy organised a research visit with Professor John Hines, Emeritus Professor at Cardiff University.
#FindsFriday: Illustrating the Ozengell Early-Medieval collection
It's #FindsFriday! Our student placement Holly has been hard at work illustrating more of our Ozengell Early-Medieval collection.
#FossilFriday: Fossilised Oyster shell from the Lympne excavation
For a late #fossilfriday we have this amazing fossilised Oyster shell from the Lympne excavation last year!
#FindsFriday: Roman paw print
It's #FindsFriday! Our curator has been busy cataloguing more of the Lympne excavation archive from last year, and today's find shows the importance of a secondary sort off site.
#FindsFriday and #fossilfriday: Crinoids or ‘sea lilies’
Today is both #findsfriday and #fossilfriday! Although as archaeologists we don't routinely deal with fossils, we do occasionally come across them.
Lees Court Lithics
Yesterday society Curator Andy and #Lithics volunteer Angela headed back to Lees Court Estate to undertake the process of sorting out the flint assemblage so that they can be sent off for specialist analysis.
- Andy Ward
- Archaeology Research Group
- Association of Independent Museums
- Bifrons
- Bronze Age
- Ceramics
- Coins
- Dover Archaeological Group
- Elham
- Excavations
- Flint
- Fossils
- Glassware
- Hartlip
- Headcorn
- History & Archives Research Group
- Illustrations
- Iron Age
- Isle of Thanet Archaeological Society
- Jewelry
- KAS Collections
- Kent Archaeological Society
- Kent County Show
- Leeds Priory
- Lees Court Estate
- Lees Court Estate Project
- Lullingstone
- Lympne
- Maidstone Museum
- Medieval
- Metal Detecting
- Minster
- Modern
- Northfleet
- Ozengell
- Pilgrim Trust
- Prehistoric
- Ramsgate
- River Medway
- Rochester
- Sarre
- Society Collections
- Studying History & Archaeology in Lympne (SHAL)
- Swale
- Trottiscliffe
- Trust for Thanet Archaeology
- Volunteering
- Weaponry
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.