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 […]
We are Back!
JAM is holding another two weeks of Post-Excavation taster days this February. Find out more on the Inspire South Tyneside Community Page or scan the QR Code.
Jingle JAMCam: QGIS; or, The Terrifying Ghost of Archaeology Future
A JAM Update! The fences in Drewett’s (Charlies) Park were taken down this morning with the very generous help of the Groundwork Land Team. We’ve re-seeded the ground but it’s still quite squishy, so we ask that you take extra special care while in the park not to let yourself or your furry four-legged friends get stuck in the mud or trip […]