June 2008
Thirteen members of the Consortium visited the newly re-established laboratories at the headquarters of the York Archaeological Trust in Aldwark on the evening of 11 June 2008. They were given a tour of the excellent new facilities by Principal Conservator Ian Panter.
Among the items shown to members were a mammoth tusk found at Spurn Head (shown below), a number of finds from the Hungate excavations, the excavations at the University's site at East Heslington (shown above) and a recently restored bust from Newcastle Library (also shown below).
The tour continued with a visit to the Trust's Wood Centre in Walmgate, where members were shown the freeze drying facilities and were also saw two cast iron cannon from Inishbofin, an island off the coast of Ireland undergoing conservation and an early wrought iron (stave built) cannon from Studland Bay, Dorset. The evening was rounded off with a visit to the nearby Black Swan Inn in Peaseholme Green.