Founded 1906
Archaeology Report Spring 2018
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Selected Article from the BHAS Bi-Annual magazine "Flint" Spring 2018
Volunteering at Brighton & Hove Museum A small group of BHAS members have been volunteering on a rota basis every Friday at Brighton Museum. Each week a maximum of 4 volunteers are helping the museum to create a digitised record of the extensive archaeological resourcesthey hold, hidden away in the basement. We work in the Museum Lab Room which is open to the public in the afternoons, giving us a chance to talk about BHAS and what we are doing. It is also an opportunity to inform people about the new Archaeology Gallery which will be opening later this year. The main task to date has been looking at and sorting predominately pottery finds from 2 excavations, undertaken in the 1970s: Newhaven Roman Villa Site and Slonk Hill (Shoreham by Sea) Iron Age/Romano British Site.This work has made us all realise how important it is to mark finds clearly during post excavation processing. We have often struggled with magnifying glasses and torches to decipher some of the markings on the pottery. Black ink on black pottery can present quite a challenge. Once the finds from each large bag are sorted, counted, re-bagged and labelled the information is entered onto the data base. Other activities which some of us have been involved in are: photographing artefacts to go on the data base and making an inventory of archaeological plans and drawings from the early part of the 20th Century. Some of these plans of local excavations are by Herbert Toms who was at that time curator of Brighton Museum. He was by all accounts an enthusiastic and charismatic figure who did much to promote archaeology in the local community and who was responsible for setting up BHAS in 1906.
Fran Briscoe
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