Cliftonville ‘witch bottle’ scan at CCCU reveals contents including metal pins and bone or wood
A suspected ‘witch bottle’ unearthed at a house in Cliftonville has now been scanned at Canterbury Christ Church University and found to contain objects including a collection of metal pins or staples and a cylindrical object which may be a piece of bone or wood.
The Ozengell Collection
The latest in the series on online talks hosted by the KAS, featuring KAS Curator Andy Ward discussing the Anglo-Saxon Ozengell Collection.
#MuseumMonday: Copper-alloy sword pommel
Its #MuseumMonday! On Friday 13th our curator Andy organised a research visit with Professor John Hines, Emeritus Professor at Cardiff University.
#FindsFriday: Illustrating the Ozengell Early-Medieval collection
It's #FindsFriday! Our student placement Holly has been hard at work illustrating more of our Ozengell Early-Medieval collection.
#fossilfriday: Fossilised Oyster shell from the Lympne excavation
For a late #fossilfriday we have this amazing fossilised Oyster shell from the Lympne excavation last year!
#FindsFriday: Roman paw print
It's #FindsFriday! Our curator has been busy cataloguing more of the Lympne excavation archive from last year, and today's find shows the importance of a secondary sort off site.
Lees Court Lithics
Yesterday society Curator Andy and #Lithics volunteer Angela headed back to Lees Court Estate to undertake the process of sorting out the flint assemblage so that they can be sent off for specialist analysis.
#FindsFriday: Bartman Jug
One of the objects the society has brought along to this year's Kent County Show is this lovely Bartman Jug reportedly found during Peter Tester's excavations at Leeds Priory in the 1970s.
Kent County Show and tell!
It's time to countdown to this years Kent County Show! Only one more day to the gates open! The KAS will be returning for the first time since 2008. We cannot wait to showcase some of the wonderful items in our collection with the thousands of visitors who will grace the Kent County Show across the 5th, 6th and 7th July!
Grant award from the Association of Independent Museums and the Pilgrim Trust
The Society is pleased to announce that we have been awarded an Association of Independent Museums (AIM) and Pilgrim Trust Conservation Audit Grant in their recent award round!
#FindsFriday: Lees Court finds
It was a rather wet #findsfriday today! Although this meant little chance of digging, it did mean the team were able to sort all of the washed and dried finds from this year's excavations.
#FindsFriday: Frankish ceramic bottle
It's #FindsFriday! On Monday 20th June I gave a presentation to Isle of Thanet Archaeological Society on the work the KAS have been carrying out on the Ozengell Anglo-Saxon collection.
#FindsFriday Lees Court pot washing
It's #findsfriday and on such a bright and sunny day the conditions are perfect for #potwashing! This large lump of mud was hiding a beautifully decorated piece of #Mortlake #neolithic pottery dating from c. 3350 - 2900/2700 BC.
#FindsFriday Roman Brooch
For #FindsFriday I thought I would give a sneak peak of what happens after objects are excavated by the society!
Lower Medway Archaeology Group (LMAG) flint finds
It's #FindsFriday or should I say #FlintFriday! At the beginning of this week longstanding Maidstone Museums volunteer Angela joined me at our offices in Marsham Street to look over a box of Lower Medway Archaeology Group (LMAG) finds labelled hand axes.
#FindsFriday mystery object
We have a bit of a #mysteryobject for #FindsFriday this week. Found by our new curatorial volunteer amongst Arthur Harrison's collection is this small copper-alloy coin(?) which appears to have a hole pierced through the centre.
Curator’s Corner: Early Medieval Inlaid Weaponry
Featured in the KAS Magazine, Winter 2023 (Member Access).
Sarre or Bifrons cemetery knife
KAS Curator Andy Ward shares an Anglo-Saxon knife with crisscrossed inlaid gold, silver and copper decoration.
Paleolithic flint tool illustrations by Benjamin Harrison
Today is National Illustration Day and so for this week's #FindsFriday KAS Curator Andy Ward showcases a small sample of the wonderful illustrations of Benjamin Harrison.
Samian Ware from Hartlip Roman Villa
Curator Andy Ward highlights another element of the temporary exhibition at Maidstone Museum The Story of the KAS due to finish at the beginning of December.
- Andy Ward
- Archaeology Research Group
- Association of Independent Museums
- Bifrons
- Bronze Age
- Canterbury Christ Church University
- Ceramics
- Coins
- Elham
- Elizabeth Blanning
- Flint
- Fossils
- Glassware
- Hartlip
- History & Archives Research Group
- Illustrations
- Iron Age
- Isle of Thanet Archaeological Society
- Jewelry
- Kent County Show
- Leeds Priory
- Lees Court Estate
- Lullingstone
- Lympne
- Maidstone Museum
- Margate
- Medieval
- Metal Detecting
- Minster
- Modern
- Northfleet
- Ozengell
- Pilgrim Trust
- Prehistoric
- Ramsgate
- River Medway
- Rochester
- Sarre
- Society Collections
- Swale
- Trottiscliffe
- Trust for Thanet Archaeology
- Volunteering
- Weaponry