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We have two small exhibits on at the moment. At the Collection, in Lincoln, you can see a small artefact and visual media display all about our work, while at DIG, York, we have a very original multimedia, hands-on display that we put together with science A-level stud...

We have been working with Andrew Wrenn  (Historical Association) to put together a unique set of teaching resources for History at Key Stage 2. The resources are flexible, integrate very closely with the KS2 Curriculum and are, we think, pretty innovative. They will ob...

Happy New Year all! 

It's been a bit quiet on here recently, and as ever that doesn't mean we've been twiddling our thumbs; there's a lot going on. As well as busily analysing and writing, we have been working closely with our friends at the York Archaeological Trust on...

So...I've been a bit quiet on here lately.  There are a number of reasons for that, but primarily that we have alternately had our heads down in the lab and been running around Europe talking about the project.

Progress in the lab has been rapid, and we now have several...

Here's a little piece I did for my personal video series, A Viking Minute. It's not really a Melting Pot output, but does provide an easy way into what we are trying to do.

We're really excited that the Jorvik Viking Festival kicks off in York this week.  This not only fills the city centre with hordes of vikings, and gives us plenty of intellectually stimulating lectures to drop in to (have a look at this and this), but also provides us...

It's been a little while since we posted on here, so thought it might be worth letting you know what we've been up to since the summer.  We've had a busy few months, collecting samples from sites in Yorkshire, LIncolnshire and London, analysing them under the microscop...

We had a willing intern this last week, Federica Benedetti, so with the help of digital gurus Neil Wevaux and Gareth Beale, we experimented with producing some 3D models of some of our more complete ceramics. The purpose of this was to see how much more clearly we were...

The Melting Pot team got their second outing this week, at the International Medieval Congress, in Leeds. The project is still in its early stages, but the conference theme was Food, Feast, and Famine, so how could we refuse? We hosted a discussion session entitled Fro...

Last night,  Melting Pot 's Oliver Craig and Anita Radini made an appearance at York's Festival of Ideas Together with Dr Keith Thomas (Brewlab, University of Sunderland) they discussed the history and archaeology of brewing and beer. Their talk on 'Brewing: Anglo...