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Today is my 13th work anniversary. Yes, that’s right! I started work in my current position 13 years ago. Here are some of the things Ingot up to. (1/14)
One of the first things I worked on was a Roman shale object. Fascinating it was too! I had never worked on shale before. (2/14) https://research.historicengland.org.uk/redirect.aspx?id=6539%7C%20Clatterford%20Roman%20Villa,%20Isle%20of%20Wight:%20The%20Conservation%20and%20Investigation%20of%20a%20Waterlogged%20Shale%20Object
Next I embarked on a wood recording project. Having started out illustrating artefacts and recording ship timbers, started a passion for visualisation in archaeology. (3/14) https://research.historicengland.org.uk/redirect.aspx?id=5900%7CHMS%20Stirling%20Castle,%20Kent:%20The%20Stirling%20Castle%20Wood%20Recording%20Project
My favourite material in archaeology/ conservation: Leather! Best part of this project: the floppiness test! (4/14) https://research.historicengland.org.uk/redirect.aspx?id=6007%7CLeather%20Drying%20Trial%20%20%20:%20A%20comparative%20study%20to%20evaluate%20different%20treatment%20and%20drying%20techniques%20for%20wet,%20archaeological%20leather
For my next report, you can feast your eyes on some beautiful Viking objects, including these gilded tortoise brooches. Careful! Some scary surprises lurked in the dirt! (5/14) https://research.historicengland.org.uk/redirect.aspx?id=6009%7CTownfoot%20Farm,%20Cumwhitton,%20Cumbria:%20Investigative%20Conservation%20of%20Material%20from%20the%20Viking%20Cemetery
Apart from leather, I also really enjoy working on waterlogged wood. (6/14) https://research.historicengland.org.uk/redirect.aspx?id=6122%7CBarking%20Abbey,%20London%20Borough%20of%20Barking%20and%20Dagenham:%20The%20Recording%20and%20Conservation%20of%20Middle%20Saxon%20Waterlogged%20Woodwork
Let’s stay with organic materials for a bit. I worked with the wonderful @McCormack_Diana and @FayWorley on these bones. (7/14) https://research.historicengland.org.uk/redirect.aspx?id=6112%7CHatfield%20Enclosure,%20Marden,%20Wiltshire:%20The%20conservation%20of%20block-lifted%20bone%20and%20antler
More organics! This time a mammoth tooth. And a big one it was too! (8/14) https://research.historicengland.org.uk/redirect.aspx?id=6191%7CConservation%20of%20a%20mammoth%20tooth%20reported%20under%20The%20Marine%20Aggregate%20Industry%20Protocol%20for%20the%20Reporting%20of%20Finds%20of%20Archaeological%20Interest
No report for 2015, but in 2016 we move on to material from a #ProtectedWreck: the Stirling Castle. (9/14) https://research.historicengland.org.uk/redirect.aspx?id=6609%7C%20Conservation%20of%20surface%20recovered%20artefacts%20from%20the%20Stirling%20Castle,%20Protected%20Wreck
And because we love the wrecks so much, here is another report. This time from the #ProtectedWreck @Inv1744. (10/14) https://research.historicengland.org.uk/redirect.aspx?id=6609%7C%20Conservation%20of%20surface%20recovered%20artefacts%20from%20the%20Stirling%20Castle,%20Protected%20Wreck
This was a fun project. Not only can you marvel at 50 buttons, but the star of the show is the bone brush/ shoe horn. (11/14) https://research.historicengland.org.uk/redirect.aspx?id=7269%7CHMS%20Colossus,%20Protected%20shipwreck%20site,%20Isles%20of%20Scilly:%20Investigation%20and%20conservation%20of%20surface%20recovered%20artefacts
And we are back with leather. This time a slow match pouch, which basically is the precursor to a box of matches or a fire lighter. (12/14) https://research.historicengland.org.uk/redirect.aspx?id=7496%7C%20Conservation%20of%20a%20leather%20slow%20match%20pouch%20from%20Medmerry,%20West%20Sussex
Not sure what happened to the front cover of this report. But waterlogged wood and its condition can help us in the management of in-situ preserved archaeology. (13/14). https://research.historicengland.org.uk/redirect.aspx?id=7801%7CAnalyses%20of%20waterlogged%20wood%20remains%20from%20Flag%20Fen%20Archaeology%20Park,%20Cambridgeshire
I have to mention one more highlight of my career. Organising the #WOAM conference with the amazing @E_Schofield was just brilliant (and a little bit exhausting)! (14/14)
