Yesterday the Stannington Sanatorium Project Team visited Durham University to attend this year’s UK Archaeological Sciences (UKAS) Conference. The conference is being hosted by the University’s Department of Archaeology and runs from 8th-11th April. We were fortunate enough to be able to present a poster presentation to demonstrate the potential of the Stannington Collection as an academic resource for those in the field of archaeology, see below.
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During the course of the day we spoke to several people interested in the collection and the poster will continue to be displayed for the duration of the conference for delegates to view. We also had the opportunity to view other posters and hear various presentations on some of the interesting research currently being carried out by those in the field of archaeology. The topics covered were varied and included investigations into Iranian pottery production, the origins of agriculture, entheseal changes, and the migration of red deer to the Outer Hebrides and the Orkneys in the Neolithic period. All in all it was a very interesting day and a great opportunity for us to promote the collection further.