JAMCam: Deep Excavations and FAQs
With just one week left to go, we’re seeing real progress down at the dig site. We’ve finally broken past the modern deposits at both the North and South ends of our main trench. Image: Excavating intact 18th/17th century deposits Northern end of Trench 1. We can be reasonably confident in dating these deposits as […]
JAMCam: The Week the Weather Gods Almost Smiled on Us
Before we get to the updates, we want to let you know that as part of Heritage Open days we will be offering a site tour and object handling tomorrow at 10:30, 11:30 and 12:30. We will also be joined by the Tyneside Metal Detecting Association, so come on down if you can. As the […]
JAMCam: Rations and Rationality
And so, the first official week of JAM has reached its conclusion, and by gosh was it beyond expectations. Image: The skull of the Venerable Bede himself! You may have seen our early update in the week, and we at Jarrow Hall commend and honestly admire the people of Jarrow’s commitment to the bit. […]
Breaking Ground at the Excavation
Yesterday we were delighted to have the Mayor and Mayoress of South Tyneside visit us for our Breaking Ground event in Drewetts Park. Final preparations were underway as our archaeology team of volunteers and staff finished de-turfing the trench areas ahead of the official community excavation beginning this week. We were also joined by trustees, […]
JAMCam: De-turfing and Training
Image: The JAMFam installing project posters on site. Today we wrapped up a week of hard work behind the scenes at JAM. Museum staff, along with our Lead Volunteers have been working with staff from Archaeological Resource Services to make sure that we’re up to scratch on our knowledge of the archaeological process as well […]
It’s Time to Open the JAM Jar!
After much excitement and wrangling computer systems, we are finally able to accept community volunteer applications for the Jarrow Archaeological Mission! To sign up, you can find the event on the South Tyneside’s Community Page on Plinth. You will need to sign up with a username and password (or just use your Google account) and […]