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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.
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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!
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Society purchases the Ozengell Anglo-Saxon Collection
The Society is excited to announce the acquisition of the Ozengell Anglo-Saxon Collection; a unique legacy from the 7th century.
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Society acquires gold garnet pendant cross
The Society has taken the opportunity to obtain another significant piece in the form of a gold and garnet pendant cross, found by metal detectorist David Haigh at Elham and reported through the Portable Antiquities Scheme.
- Andy Ward
- Archaeology Research Group
- Association of Independent Museums
- Bifrons
- Bronze Age
- Canterbury Christ Church University
- Ceramics
- Coinage
- Coins
- Elham
- Elizabeth Blanning
- Flint
- Fossils
- Glassware
- Hartlip
- Heritage
- History & Archives Research Group
- Illustrations
- Iron Age
- Isle of Thanet Archaeological Society
- Jewelry
- KAS Collections
- Kent Archaeological Society
- Kent County Show
- Leeds Priory
- Lees Court Estate
- Lees Court Estate Project
- Lees Court Project
- Lullingstone
- Lympne
- Maidstone Museum
- Margate
- Medieval
- Metal Detecting
- Milton
- Minster
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- Ramsgate
- Richborough
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- Rochester
- Sarre
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- Swale
- Trottiscliffe
- Trust for Thanet Archaeology
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