Clean In Ancient Rome, Dirty In Modern England?

Written by Dr. Claire Kennan

Beauport Park is the site of an Ancient Roman Bathhouse located in East Sussex, England. The Beaufort Park site was originally discovered in the 1920s and first excavated by Gerald Brodribb, an amateur archeologist, in the early 1970s. While the collection now belongs to the Bexhill Museum, it is currently on loan to be cleaned and catalogued by Bader College, the UK campus for Queen’s University (Canada) based at Herstmonceux Castle. Archeology students from Canadian Universities, including Queen’s University and the University of Waterloo, have crossed the Atlantic to clean and catalogue the collection in the effort to start the long and delicate preservation process of these ancient materials.