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The Thrislington Archive
An archaeological archive is the collection of artefacts and documents that is used to study and preserve the site.
Many sources of original information were used to reconstruct the medieval village of Thrislington. This section provides
some background to the evidence behind the reconstructions.
The original records from Professor David Austen's excavations in 1973, including sketches, plan drawings,
excavation notes, context sheets and photographs have all provided vital clues about what the buildings looked like,
the kinds of people that lived there, and the activities they carried out on a day-to-day basis. You can see a
selection of these records, and some of the artefacts that were found by the excavation team here.
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The physical site archive is looked after by
Durham County
Council's Archaeology Section, and housed at
the Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle, where some of the objects found
at Thrislington can also be seen. For more information, please see our contact page.
The contents of the archive are presented in context throughout the site so that you can, for example, link from the reconstruction
of the chapel to a photograph of the building under excavation. However, the archive content list
allows you to see the entire archive at a glance.
[Table of Contents]
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