Archaeologists working on the Micropasts public archaeology project hope to use a set of drawings and notes relating to artefacts from Wiltshire to create 3D models of some of the finest Bronze Age objects ever found in Britain.
Jennifer Wexler, of the British
Museum, where the Bronze Age Index set of cards is held, has examined more than
100 casual finds, lost items and objects from some of the famous barrow
cemeteries on Salisbury Plain among the collection, providing detailed descriptions
of antiquarian metalwork finds from the past two centuries.
[These cards are a fascinating
record of the work carried out in a previous century – and remind me of the
work I undertook in 1985 at the Alexand Keiller Museum with the late Isobel Smith.
Dr Smith gave me access to a number of artefacts, as well as to all of the
original thin-sections of the Group XIX Mesolithic and Neolithic ground stone
axes. At the time, I believe that they were kept in her attic and I was
only allowed to look at them with her present. I believe that I did find the
source of the XIX implements - and will divulge all one day.......]
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