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Manufacture, wear and repair of the Chiseldon Iron Age cauldrons
by Jamie Hood and Alexandra Baldwin, British Museum With the Iron Age Chiseldon cauldrons excavated and cleaned to expose the metal surface the team at the British Museum are beginning to see...
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Chiseldon cauldron update: An unique form of decoration
by Jamie Hood, British Museum As work on the Chiseldon Iron Age cauldrons progresses the team are constantly making discoveries. Possibly the most exciting feature found so far is a decorated handle....
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Encasing Magna Carta
A team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have been working for the National Archives in Washington, USA to design and build a state-of-the-art encasement and transport cart...
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Beau Street Hoard: what’s in the box?
In November 2007, during a routine excavation in advance of building work in Beau Street, Bath (a stone’s throw from the famous Roman Baths themselves), archaeologists from Cotswold Archaeology came...
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The Beau Street Hoard: excavation progress
by Julia Tubman, conservator, British Museum As mentioned in previous posts, the Beau Street Hoard is not just one huge jumbled mass of coins, but actually at least six separate bags. My excavation...
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The Plains bison: preserving an American icon
Plains bison are an iconic symbol of America on everything from coins to state flags. Now scientists writing in Conservation Biology are exploring how the cross-breeding of bison with domestic cattle...
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LEGO® helps save ancient Egyptian mummy case
Thanks to an ambitious conservation project, the ancient Egyptian cartonnage mummy case of Hor, a little-known treasure of the Fitzwilliam Museum, is now on display after years in obscurity. The...
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Deir al-Surian, a treasure chest in the desert
The Wadi al-Natrun, a geological depression west of the Nile delta, is one of the cradles of Coptic monasticism. In the 4th century hermits were retreating here is search of asceticism and solitude,...
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Saving the murals of El Tajin
Delicate decorative murals at El Tajin were deteriorating due to salt and moisture problems. It has taken four years of work to stabilize the artThe post Saving the murals of El Tajin appeared first on...
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Hallaton helmet unveiled after conservation
A decade after its discovery in Leicestershire, the painstaking process of reconstruction is complete and ready to go on display at Harborough Museum
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