Early settlers: objects
Stone Age Food The Middle Stone Age, or Mesolithic people were hunter-gatherers. It is common on sites like East Barns to find food remains such as: 1) Periwinkle shells 2) Fish bones 3) Edible seeds...
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Corded urn Decorated urns These burial urns were excavated at Eweford near Dunbar before the A1 was built. They were buried upside down with the cremated remains of the deceased inside. They date to...
View ArticleDig Deeper: Grow your own cropmark
How to make.. Cress Cropmarks Cropmarks are made when there are ditches or walls buried underground. This affects the way that the crops or grasses grow. It affects the rate the crops grow and...
View ArticleEast Lothian Food and Drink – a new display at the museum
The other week I blogged about our new displays in the museum, and featured the Communities case, which now has a beautiful display of clothes from those significant moments in our lives – birth,...
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