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: JAM
Hello and welcome back to our spotlight series, picking up with our second spotlight of the year. This time we are highlighting our incredible JAM project and learning more about what archaeology is really like. So what is JAM? JAM stands for Jarrow Archaeological Mission. This project, made possible by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, is helping us […]
JAMCam: Pipe Dreams
Hello and Welcome to this Weeks JAMCam, where we continue our adventure into the worlds of clay pipes. If you’re up to date on our updates, then you’ll know that last week we spent some time looking at our pipe collection and researching local manufacturers in order to understand where to start when dating the material. This week we took that a step further by splitting the pipes into a broad chronology. Caption: the ordered chaos of JAM HQ We’ve done this in order to create a […]
JAMCam: Somehow Still Digging
Hello dear readers, and welcome back to the JAMCam. The Team has been hard at work over the last few weeks as we now begin to explore areas of research and the more fiddly items in our collection. Even though we’ve moved inside, out of the rain and the wind, we’ve found that the trench has followed us. Caption: A mini-excavation in a bucket. Yesterday […]
JAMCam: Work Continues
Just a quick recap of all the progress made over the last few weeks on today’s JAMCam. We’ve been busy cracking through another two-week block of post-excavation work and can finally say that we’re just about finished processing everything recovered last September. Caption: The drafty corridor for us poor souls. Last year, we finished washing, marking and counting the majority of our material, mostly glass bottles and pottery sherds, which meant this year we had to go through the […]
JAMCam: Fan Favourites
We’ve been doing more Post-Excavation work over the last few weeks at JAM, trying to push through the last little bits of brick scrubbing. It’s not all been washing dishes though, as this week at JAM we were joined by a group of young people from Escape Intervention who spent a morning taking photo’s and […]