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Arbor City Hotel Aldgate: eighth ‘find of the week’

By Cate Davies / 01/04/2022 / Comments Off on Arbor City Hotel Aldgate: eighth ‘find of the week’

Arbor City Hotel Aldgate: seventh ‘find of the week’

By Cate Davies / 25/03/2022 / Comments Off on Arbor City Hotel Aldgate: seventh ‘find of the week’

By the Medway Marsh

By Cate Davies / 22/03/2022 / Comments Off on By the Medway Marsh

We’re very pleased to announce that our long-anticipated monograph ‘By the Medway Marsh‘ by James Gerrard and Guy Seddon is now available to purchase from our publications page!

Icenian silver coin with a previously unknown die stamp – another first for PCA

By Cate Davies / 18/03/2022 / Comments Off on Icenian silver coin with a previously unknown die stamp – another first for PCA

We’ve had an amazing find this week from a site in Suffolk The coin is an Icenian Bury E type silver unit, of which Talbot (2017) records only 4 known examples. The reverse die of this coin (the side with the horse) is known on three of them, two of which are sub-classified by Cottam…

Arbor City Hotel Aldgate: sixth ‘find of the week’

By Cate Davies / 11/03/2022 / Comments Off on Arbor City Hotel Aldgate: sixth ‘find of the week’

No. 6 in our ‘Find of the Week’ series from McAleer & Rushe’s site at Arbor City Hotel, London Aldgate, is a rare example of the apex of a crested tile from the front of a 16th to early 17th century tiled stove, a high-status heating construction showing continental fashion.

Plumstead West Thamesmead

By Cate Davies / 04/03/2022 / Comments Off on Plumstead West Thamesmead

This site was wrapped on Wednesday in terrible weather conditions, with unfortunately no evidence of the Neolithic trackways we had hoped to find!

LIVE STREAM Stratigraphic Heart – Working in Archaeology Part 2

By Cate Davies / 04/03/2022 / Comments Off on LIVE STREAM Stratigraphic Heart – Working in Archaeology Part 2

A big shout out for former PCA employee and music legend Stevie Jones! His band, Stevie Jones and the Wildfires, will be streaming live from their Facebook Page on Monday 7th March 7.30pm GMT.

Arbor City Hotel Aldgate: fifth ‘find of the week’

By Cate Davies / 04/03/2022 / Comments Off on Arbor City Hotel Aldgate: fifth ‘find of the week’

This late medieval chain is No. 5 in our ‘Find of the Week’ series from McAleer & Rushe’s site at Arbor City Hotel, London Aldgate. It’s probably a dress fitting, possibly used for securing a personal identification seal.

FRONTIER PERSPECTIVES TALKS SERIES

By Cate Davies / 02/03/2022 / Comments Off on FRONTIER PERSPECTIVES TALKS SERIES

Katie Mountain from PCA Durham will be giving a talk on 19 March, along with her co-editor Marta Alberti (Vindolanda Trust), on their forthcoming publication on managing Hadrian’s Wall as a cultural resource in 2022. The publication will be out in the next few months – both in print and Open Access.

Arbor City Hotel Aldgate: fourth ‘find of the week’

By Cate Davies / 25/02/2022 / Comments Off on Arbor City Hotel Aldgate: fourth ‘find of the week’

We’re digging deeper and delving further into Whitechapel’s past at McAleer & Rushe’s site at the Arbor City Hotel in London Aldgate!