March 21, 2008
Tudor quill pen
Yet another entry in the "excavating within the museum" category:
A Tudor quill pen thought to have been dropped through the floorboards of Whitehall Palace by some overworked, underpaid civil servant of the day has been discovered, to the astonishment of archaeologists. . .From the Times of London.It was among some 4,000 cardboard boxes in the archives of the Museum of London. They are full of material excavated from the historic palace but never studied or catalogued. The excavation was in the 1960s, but the archaeologists from the Ministry of Works then never got around to studying their finds.
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Posted by: polzoo on March 22, 2008 1:58 AM
And people blame the 1930s Italian excavators of the imperial fora!
Posted by: Michael Tinkler on March 22, 2008 5:32 AM
"overworked, underpaid": it's amazing what an archaeologist can tell from a mere glance at a quill.
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