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The Library .
NEWS!
The Museum Extension
From Hole in the Ground
to Grand Opening!
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Monday, July
26, 2005
A large sign announces
that the Museum extension project is underway. Tony Kitson is
at the scene with his digital camera. The mechanical
diggers move in, but building work is halted when archaeological
features are revealed.
The local newspapers
come to record the cutting of the "first sod" but leave
with an unexpected archaeological story as well.
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Tuesday, July
27, 2005
Museum Curator,
Chris Tod, is amazed to see a growing number of finds emerging
from the site.
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Friday, July
29, 2005
Archaeologists
extract a large animal bone, one of many pieces of bone and pottery
found during the four day excavation. The Museum extension
story appears in the Steyning Herald, the West Sussex Gazette
and the West Sussex County Times.
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The finds need
to be closely analysed but some early thoughts are:
1. A possible boundary
ditch and some small waste pits were revealed.
2. The finds and
the features appear to be late Saxon to early Norman.
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Pottery
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Bones
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Pottery, Bones,
Teeth
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Some of these finds
will be on view in the Museum extension when it is completed.
Chris Tod, the Curator, had a word with the builders and came
up with an imaginative plan. Visitors will be able to look through
a glass window in the floor, into an illuminated pit. A display
of finds in the pit will be a permanent reminder of the archaeology
discovered below the building.
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