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Week 4 - 17/10/07
Week four has seen the volunteers finish their work with the accesioned objects from the site. The session started with participants completing the packing of unprocessed glass & metal objects, after which each material was separated and sorted first by site area, then by accession number. The final stage was to complete the box labels, marking them up as either "<ALL>" accessions, "sequences" of accessions, or "large" accessions.
By the end of the two hours, it was clear how through their work, the accessioned archive has gone from being disorganised and unprotected to boxes of clearly labeled, packed and much more accessible objects.
Debbie Seedburgh with lead cannonball
By the end of the two hours, it was clear how through their work, the accessioned archive has gone from being disorganised and unprotected to boxes of clearly labeled, packed and much more accessible objects.
Debbie Seedburgh with lead cannonball
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| Carr | Boxed - Metal and Glass | 0 | Oct 18 2007, 12:34 PM EDT by Carr | ||
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It was a good afternoon. We spent some time looking at the Wetpaint site and learning how to add our comments to the site, which was useful. We then got down to work and completed the repacking of our metal and glass objects, sorted them and then reboxed. The labelling of the boxes is a little complicated and I think Adam will need to revisit the box labelling with us before we can be trusted to do it correctly on our own! It was good to see the finished boxes and to feel that we have contributed a little over the past four weeks. Some of us spent a little time at the end of the afternoon discussing the options for our projects. Jean gave us lots of very helpful information and much to think about.
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| PatAC | The iron objects | 0 | Oct 17 2007, 7:50 PM EDT by PatAC | ||
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The iron objects were many and varied - a knife (though dagger might have been a better description), nails, staples and even a cannon ball. Who would have been firing cannon balls in Limehouse? All the ones I handled were a nightmare to pack, the slightest touch or even looking at them caused them to crumble and shed metal dust. However it was eventually done! At the end some of us sorted the record cards we had completed for the catalogue, and were surprised at how much we had done. What's more there were only two duplicates so our fears that we would end up repacking things that had already been packed were largely unfounded and the apparent chaos at times proved to be really brilliant organisation.
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