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    Photo credits: Coppergate Pots (c) York Archaeological Trust. Thanks to Maude Hirst for hearthside photo.

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    Melting Pot Exhibitions

    July 3, 2019

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    Steve Ashby

    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...

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    New Teaching Materials for Key Stage 2 History

    January 11, 2019

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    Steve Ashby

    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...

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    Coming soon...

    January 11, 2019

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    Steve Ashby

    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...

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    Recent Progress

    October 5, 2017

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    Steve Ashby

    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...

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    100% unofficial introduction to Melting Pot

    March 24, 2017

    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.

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    Melting Pot at the Jorvik Viking Festival

    February 19, 2017

    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...

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    Autumn Update

    November 13, 2016

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    Steve Ashby

    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...

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    3D Imaging

    August 22, 2016

    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...

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    Melting Pot at IMC 2016

    July 6, 2016

    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...

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    First outing for Melting Pot team

    June 15, 2016

    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...

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    July 3, 2019

    New Teaching Materials for Key Stage 2 History

    January 11, 2019

    Coming soon...

    January 11, 2019

    Recent Progress

    October 5, 2017

    100% unofficial introduction to Melting Pot

    March 24, 2017

    Melting Pot at the Jorvik Viking Festival

    February 19, 2017