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Philippa Mary Pearce is a senior
Pearce is the conservator for excavations at
British Museum staff page
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conservator
Conservator (female Conservatrix) may refer to:
* Conservator of a Conservatorship, in the United States, a person appointed by a court or regulatory authority to supervise a person or entity's financial affairs
* Conservator (religion), a judge ap ...
at the British Museum
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docume ...
. She is particularly known for her work on coin hoards found in England and was awarded an MBE Mbe may refer to:
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for services to metal conservation in 2018. She has worked on most of the coin hoards found in recent years as part of the Treasure
Treasure (from la, thesaurus from Greek language ''thēsauros'', "treasure store") is a concentration of wealth — often originating from ancient history — that is considered lost and/or forgotten until rediscovered. Some jurisdictions leg ...
process.
Career
Pearce has led conservation work on many of the most famous coin hoards of recent years, including theWatlington Hoard
The Watlington Hoard is a collection of Viking silver, buried in the 870s and rediscovered in Watlington, Oxfordshire, England in 2015.
Details
The hoard is made up of silver – 186 coins (some fragmentary), 15 ingots and 7 pieces of jeweller ...
, Tetbury Hoard, Yeovil Roman Hoard, Lenborough Hoard
The Lenborough Hoard is a hoard of more than 5,000 late Anglo-Saxon silver coins, dating to the eleventh century, that was found at Lenborough in Buckinghamshire, England in 2014. It is believed to be one of the largest hoards of Anglo-Saxon coin ...
, and Seaton Down Hoard
The Seaton Down Hoard is a hoard of 22,888 Roman coins found in November 2013 by metal detectorist Laurence Egerton near Seaton Down in Devon, England.
History
The coins were found near the site of a Roman fort and possible villa in Honeydi ...
. Most famously, she has worked on the Frome Hoard
The Frome Hoard is a hoard of 52,503 Roman coins found in April 2010 by metal detectorist Dave Crisp near Frome in Somerset, England. The coins were contained in a ceramic pot in diameter, and date from AD 253 to 305. Most of the coins are ma ...
.
Due to the large number of coin hoards discovered needing preliminary conservation at the British Museum
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docume ...
, Pearce has changed metal conservation processes in order to manage the large volume of coins, particularly Roman coins.
Pearce is the conservator for excavations at Sidon
Sidon ( ; he, צִידוֹן, ''Ṣīḏōn'') known locally as Sayda or Saida ( ar, صيدا ''Ṣaydā''), is the third-largest city in Lebanon. It is located in the South Governorate, of which it is the capital, on the Mediterranean coast ...
conducted by the British Museum
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docume ...
and the Lebanese Department of Antiquities. She works as a small finds and site conservator on a number of excavations including the sites of Kamenica, Butrint
Butrint ( el, Βουθρωτόν and Βουθρωτός, ''Bouthrōtón'', la, Buthrōtum) was an ancient Greek and later Roman city and bishopric in Epirus. "Speakers of these various Greek dialects settled different parts of Greece at diffe ...
, and Apollonia in Albania
Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is located on the Adriatic
The Adriatic Sea () is a body of water separating the ...
, and the sites of Kawa and the Northern Dongala Reach in Sudan.
Publications
* "We do it indoors and sitting down, but still call it archaeology – unravelling and recording blocklifted hoards" in ''Encounters, Excavations and Argosies: Essays for Richard Hodges'' eds John Mitchell, John Moreland and Bea Leal (Archaeopress 2017) 236-9 * "Practicable Solutions’ in ''Festschrift for Prof Korkuti: New Directions in Albanian Archaeology'' eds L. Bejko and R. Hodges, International Centre for Albanian archaeology (Monograph Series No.1, Tirana, 2006) 356-367References
External links
British Museum staff page
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