Scouts and students unearth Kingston's past

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Surbiton.com: May 2, 2012 - 9:20am

Scouts and students unearth Kingston's past in archaeological dig.

Scouts and students discovered a musket ball, a wedding ring, and two military pendants when they took part in an archaeological dig to investigate the borough’s past.

The youngsters helped the Kingston upon Thames Archaeological Society after they won a £28,400 Heritage Lottery grant to investigate a site on the Hogsmill River in August last year.

The dig at the Southwood Scout Activity Centre in Tolworth focused on palaeoecology, which reconstructs the past environment through bore-holing and digging pits. A lead token was also among the items found through the digging and metal detecting, which helped scouts achieve their heritage badge. Research shows the meandering stream was once much wider and faster flowing and there were rumoured to be 13 gunpowder mills along its banks.

The fieldwork has now been turned into an exhibition, which aims to put the techniques and results into wider context of the area’s rich historical past. The exhibition, called The Hogsmill: A journey through time, will run at Kingston Museum between the May 19 and July 14. For more information visit kingston.gov.uk/museum or kingstonarchaeology.org.

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The Hogsmill: A journey through time

Kingston upon Thames Archaeological Society

kingston.gov.uk/museum

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