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Burgess Park Community Dig – Day 1
The first visitors on day 1 of the Burgess Park Community dig were local mothers taking their children to school and dog walkers out enjoying the morning sunshine. After hearing unfounded rumours over...
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Burgess Park Community Dig – Day 2
Despite waking up and seeing the rain, day 2 at this year’s public archaeology dig ended up being another scorcher like yesterday. It was local school, Coburg Primary, that joined us in the trench...
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Burgess Park Community Dig – Day 3
We were joined today by enthusiastic pupils from St Peter’s CE Primary School (see photo) and St Saviour’s & St Olave’s School. Everyone worked really hard to wash finds discovered during...
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Community digs – always popular!
The Museum has been carrying out ‘community excavations’ since 2005, and the formula of investigating a neighbourhood’s immediate history through excavation never fails to stimulate interest. Today I...
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Burgess Park Community Dig – Day 4
Today was another hot and sunny day, although thankfully not as hot as had been forecast. We welcomed pupils from Cobourg Primary School to the site for both the morning and afternoon sessions. They...
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Burgess Park Community Dig – Day 5
The weather forecast was predicting a chance of rain or even thunderstorms for today, but thankfully this did not happen. It was in fact the polar opposite, another glorious summer’s day at the corner...
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84 TRAFALGAR AVENUE As well as digging holes in the ground at Burgess Park, we’re also digging through the Census returns for the houses we’re finding – and the current work is on what used to be 84...
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Burgess Park Community Dig – Day 6
Today the Rotherhithe branch of the Young Archaeologists’ Club visited in the morning, and the Central London branch visited in the afternoon. All the members were very interested in the local...
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Burgess Park Community Dig – Day 7
Moving into the second week and it was time for two Museum of London projects to meet as volunteers from the Museum’s London Archaeological Archive and Research Centre (LAARC) came along to dig and...
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Burgess Park Community Dig – Day 8
At 10am on Valentine’s Day in 1945 a V2 rocket hit our area of Burgess Park. Reports state that it fell in the gardens between Waite Street and Pepler Road. 18 people were killed, 49 were injured...
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Burgess Park Community Dig – Day 9
The excavation continues and today we were helped by pupils from Camelot Primary School in the morning and Cobourg Primary School in the afternoon. A big thank-you to all the pupils who took part...
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Burgess Park Community Dig – Day 10
Today was the antepenultimate day of our community dig and last day of school groups! We were joined by Year 7 pupils from another local school – Walworth Academy – and although the weather started off...
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Burgess Park Community Dig – Day 11
The final Friday of our 2010 community dig was in fact only a half day. In the afternoon volunteers from the London Archaeological Archive and Research Centre’s volunteer programme (VIP: “Volunteer...
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Burgess Park Community Dig – Day 12
‘Is this supposed to make us like archaeology?’ One girl from the Harrow Young Archaeologists Club evidently had her doubts, as she began trowelling away demolition rubble during the baking heat of...
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As a very amateur archaeologist who volunteers on National Trust Working Archaeology Holidays, imagine how excited I was when I found out the Museum of London was having a community dig in my...
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Burgess Park Training Dig – Day 1
The training excavation in Burgess Park has started. This is a five day course for adults to learn the basics techniques of field archaeology in an urban environment. We are continuing on the site...
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Burgess Park Training Dig – Day 2
Today’s blog entry was compiled by Jill and Marianne, two of our trainee archaeologists: “Trench 2 has been cleared to a fairly level surface making it easier to identify the different areas of soil...
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Burgess Park Training Dig – Day 3
The morning of Day 3 was spent in trench 2 completing the context recording sheets, using the deposit that we had identified. We learnt to provide factual information about the context, but also to...
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Burgess Park Training Dig – Day 4
Today we spent the morning digging on site then visited the LAARC (London Archaeological Archive and Research Centre) in the afternoon. We had a whistle-stop tour of the archive where thousands of...
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Burgess Park Training Dig – Day 6
To begin our day, we had an introduction into the project, discussing the various techniques and tools we needed to use throughout the week, along with the local history of the area. After the...
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Burgess Park Training Dig – Day 7
Day Two and more digging and more dust! We began the day with a quick introduction to what we would be doing in the morning which was unsurprisingly more digging. During the dig we stumbled across some...
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Burgess Park Training Dig – Day 9
After a day’s break from blogging, find out what happened on Day 9 of the dig below! We began the day doing section drawings of trench two. This involved drawing the stratigraphic layers of a 2.5 metre...
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Burgess Park Training Dig – Day 10
Two trenches were excavated at Waite Street, Burgess Park, Southwark. The difference between the two trenches reveals how the area developed over time. Trench 1 revealed a mid-Victorian house built to...
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Burgess Park Training Dig – Final Day On Site
Our excavation in Burgess Park has sadly now finished. The machine arrived yesterday and we filled in the trenches. Today the cabins will be collected. I have really enjoyed working in Burgess Park....
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