Category Archives: archaeology

What’s a clay dabbin?

Posted on May 5, 2017 by

“The first thing people do is stroke the walls – it’s tactile, there’s something about it that makes people want to touch it.” Alex Gibbons     On April 28th 2017 the first clay dabbins building to be constructed on … Continue reading →

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Snippets 5: Angels, salt and shroud-pins

Posted on October 2, 2015 by

Pat Bull unlocked a peeling black door and showed me into a small brick-walled room. On the plain wooden table which almost filled the space were small polythene bags and boxes, labelled in black feltpen with numbers and letters. At … Continue reading →

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