Church Farmhouse Museum
EXCAVATION IN THE MUSEUM GARDEN
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From 13 to 19 July, Hendon & District Archaeological
Society (HADAS) and University College, London (UCL) Institute of Archaeology,
carried out an excavation in the Museum garden, working with children
from Barnet borough junior and secondary schools. The children- some 200
of them- all had a chance to dig and to wash and identify their finds,
and although nothing of startling significance was unearthed, the project
gave them an excellent introduction to the
painstaking but absorbing world of field archaeology. The children were
also given tours of the Museum and Hendon St Mary’s churchyard.
Many members of the public came along to watch the work in progress, and
the site was visited by the MP for Hendon, Andrew Dismore.
The project (which started in 2008) will continue next Summer,
when HADAS & UCL plan to open up a different trench in the garden.
They also hope to excavate two WWII communal air-raid shelters in Sunny
Hill Park, just a few hundred yards from the Museum. The digs will make
a perfect complement to the Museum’s exhibition for the 350th anniversary
of the building of Church Farmhouse in 2010.
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