Southwark Council training excavation 2002

English Heritage summaries. 2002/2003

In July 2002, approximately 300 school children from Bermondsey and Rotherhithe, Southwark, took part in an educational archaeology project funded jointly by London Borough of Southwark and English Heritage. The programme comprised visits to the Borough Museum and Local Studies Library, participation in an archaeological evaluation on a regeneration site in Bermondsey and class sessions with an artist concentrating on map making and the pupils vision of their locality in the future. The children participated enthusiastically in the archaeological evaluation, attending sessions on finds processing and analysis, environmental sampling and actual fieldwork, delighting in the discovery of 19th-century artefacts retrieved from the brick-lined rubbish pits located in the rear yards of now demolished Victorian housing. Local older residents also visited the site, and contributed a valuable oral history of the area from the early and mid 20th-century.

This page was published 22/12/03