JAMCam: Bone Spindle
Image: Bone spindle recovered from Trench 304, Context 2036. Today on the JAMCam we’re looking at another object from our collection; this beautiful Mid-Late Saxon bone spindlewhorl. This artefact was found during Rosemary Cramp’s excavations of the monastic site at Jarrow St. Pauls in 1973. It was found in context 2036. This spindlewhorl, or just […]
JAMCam: Silver Penny of Edward the Confessor
Image: Fragment of a silver penny of Edward the Confessor, hammer cross type. Late Saxon/Early Medieval. Edward the Confessor was born to King Aethelred II and Emma of Normandy in Islip, Oxfordshire, sometime between 1002 and 1005. He was elected King of England by popular choice after the death of his half-brother, King Harthacnut on […]
Jarrow Archaeological Mission (JAM) Tender
Apply to support our first year of JAM made possible with funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund! Overview Groundwork North and South Tyneside Jarrow Hall, with funding from National Lottery Heritage Fund, would like to invite an archaeological company to support the re-opening of the excavations at Drewett’s Park in Jarrow from July to December 2025. The […]
£249,188 Awarded for our Jarrow Archaeological Mission
We are absolutely thrilled to announce that we have just been awarded £249,188 of support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to launch our Jarrow Archaeological Mission (JAM) project. JAM will officially reopen the archaeological investigations in Jarrow, exploring Drewett’s Park, in the close proximity to the Jarrow Monastic Site, continuing the legacy of the late Dame […]