In preparation for the start of the project, volunteers joined Museum of London's Jenny Hall, senior curator of the Roman collections, for a tour around the gallery.
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/English/EventsExhibitions/Permanent/RomanLondon.htm

Visit to Roman Gallery
A very interesting tour which gave you the feel of what London was like in Roman times. Our guide was excellent and very well informed. I found the coffin of the lady at the end most intriguing. It is a pity her bones are still in a cardboard box!
Angela

Entry by Carol : I found the visit to the Prescot St Dig Open Evening on Wednesday 17 September excellent. There was an opportunity to look at the latter stages of the dig, an opportunity to handle some of the finds and an excellent talk regarding the Prescot St area of the Eastern Cemetery of Roman London. The dig that we will be repacking for LAARC was just up the road from Prescot St in Mansell St, so this really brought our proposed project to life.

David gave an excellent demonstration of GIS (Geographical Information System). The amazing software programme enables the storing and viewing of referenced data, maps, images, sites and finds, a programme that really brings things into perspective even for the very basic amateur.

Have a look at this link to see some of the recent finds on the site : http://www.lparchaeology.com/prescot/galleries/photo-diary-11th-september-2008/set/72157607317822708

Entry by Carol : Skeletons at Wellcome Collection

I hope some of you will have had the opportunity to visit the Wellcome Collection in Euston Road to view the "Skeletons" exhibition, which includes a skeleton from our project site "Mansell Street" which is labelled as area G within the exhibition. The skeleton is of a 46 year old male from the Roman period. If you are unable to get to the exhibition before it closes on 28 September then have a look at this link to their website : http://www.wellcomecollection.org/exhibitionsandevents/exhibitions/skeletons/index.htm