Archaeologists spend their time excavating and trying to understand the remains of the past, however, this work doesn’t stop when the digging is over, or even when the findings are published.
Millions of artefacts, plans and records from excavations in London are curated by the staff at the London Archaeological Archive and Research Centre (LAARC), in Hackney. They are available to researchers and the public so that people can continue to study them and develop new interpretations of London’s past.
One of its many treasures is an enormous collection of Roman artefacts, unearthed over the course of hundreds of excavations, and recently some of MOLA’s finds specialists have been assisting LAARC staff and a team of volunteers in recording the huge numbers of Roman hairpins in the archive.
