Spotlight: Harness Pendant
Welcome to our newest spotlight! I recently had the pleasure of working with this wonderful little harness pendant in our collections, and it led me down a rabbithole of research. This example (2025.0022 in our collections) dates from the late 14th century, so around 1350-1400 AD. It is in a quatrefoil shape – this comes from the Latin ‘quattor’, meaning ‘four’ and ‘folium’ meaning ‘leaf’. You might see this shape a lot in churches as […]
Volunteer Research: Keys
We want to highlight some fantastic research by one of our volunteers, Kieran. Kieran has been volunteering with us for over a year now in collections. Kieran does a lot of behind the scenes work helping us to document all of our objects – but recently, he asked to do some research for us. Of […]
Recognise These Objects? We Need You!
As those of you following our JAM excavations might know, we found lots of very interesting objects during the dig in Drewett’s Park last summer. They told us a lot about Jarrow’s social history and industrial heritage. Because we would like to try to understand more about our artefacts, we are reaching out to you! […]
Spotlight: Clay Pipes (Part 2)
Welcome to part 2 of placement student Sarah’s spotlight! Sarah has been showcasing her research on our collection of clay pipes here at Jarrow. If you missed part one, you can check it out here! Clay Pipes, Tobacco, and the Slave Trade Last week, I shared some information about one of the clay pipes in […]
Spotlight: Clay Pipes (Part 1)
Welcome back to our spotlight series, where we highlight our collections and the amazing work we do at Jarrow Hall! This spotlight is written by placement student Sarah Needham, a MA student from Newcastle University. Sarah decided to research our collection of clay pipes, a common (but maybe underrated!) archaeological find. Read on to see […]
Stained Glass in Jarrow – a Window Connecting the Present and the Past
Last week we shared a fantastic blog post by Eleanor, a placement student from Newcastle University, about Anglo-Saxon herbal remedies. This week we have another blog post from one of our placement students to share with you. Grace, also from Newcastle University, was very interested in our hugely significant collection of stained glass. She decided […]