01-10-2012, 04:44 PM
Quote:Penny has been laboriously recording then lifting the groups of little studs, as whatever it is isn't laid flat; there are little layers, sort of concertina'd on themselves. Recording is an obsession with conservators, and Pen is particularly expert at drawing. Her drawings and photographs will record perfectly where everything originally lay, so that she can reconstruct how the whole thing went together once it is all removed from the soil.*Sigh* if only she'd been around to do the Corbridge Hoard! ;-) All we had surviving to work from were a few sketches on paper and a dozen or so photos taken at the time. Contrast that with the Carlisle Millennium armour, where I was supplied with CD-loads of digital photos of every stage of 'unpacking' by the conservator (Jenny Jones).
Mike Bishop
