Archaeology in action: Hyde Park Barracks


Excavation director Patricia Burritt doing a television interview on the ground floor of Hyde Park Barracks, 1981.


New stonework being cut for restoration of Hyde Park Barracks, c1980.


Trench A4 being excavated at the front of Hyde Park Barracks, 1981.


Archaeologists monitoring the backhoe excavation of service trenches in the courtyard, Hyde Park Barracks, 1981.


Archaeologist Danny Petocz excavating at Hyde Park Barracks, 1981.


Underfloor excavation of the level 2 stair landing, Hyde Park Barracks, 1981.


Archaeologists and volunteers photographed near the end of the dig at HPB and the Mint, 1981.
Standing from left: Rob Morris, Wendy Thorp, Elspeth Wishart, (volunteer), Grahame Wilson, Robert Varman, (volunteer), Andrew Wilson, (volunteer - Maree Brown?). Seated from left: Ted Higginbotham, Elizabeth Pinder, Patricia Burritt, Afonso Duque Portugal, Danny Petocz, Lisa Newell, (volunteer), (volunteer).


Archaeologist Robert Varman and three volunteers excavating a room on the ground floor at Hyde Park Barracks, 1981.


Archaeologist recovering small finds after sieving, Hyde Park Barracks, 1981.


Archaeologist Robert Varman and two volunteers excavating the north-east room of the ground floor of Hyde Park Barracks, 1981.


Preparing for excavations at the front of Hyde Park Barracks, 1980.


A well-earned rest against pipes and convict-made sandstock bricks, Hyde Park Barracks, 1981.


Excavating the ground floor of Hyde Park Barracks, 1981.


Archaeologist Wendy Thorp looking for small finds after sieving, Hyde Park Barracks, 1981.


North-east ground floor room of Hyde Park Barracks during excavation, looking west, 1980-81.


North-east ground floor room of Hyde Park Barracks during excavation, looking east, 1980-81. An archaeological grid is overlaid on a rat burrow in the foreground.


Removing the floorboards from the north-east ground floor room of Hyde Park Barracks, prior to excavation, 1980.


Some of the first floorboards removed before the underfloor excavation of Hyde Park Barracks began, 1980.


Archaeologists excavating a trench outside the eastern door of Hyde Park Barracks, 1981. From left: Wendy Thorp, Grahame Wilson, Robert Varman.


North-east ground floor room of Hyde Park Barracks after excavation, looking east, 1981.


Recovering finds from a trench behind Hyde Park Barracks, 1981. From left: Danny Petocz, Wendy Thorp, two volunteers.


Stacks of convict-made sandstock bricks, recovered during underground excavations, Hyde Park Barracks, 1981.


Finds in situ before excavation, ground floor of Hyde Park Barracks, 1981.


Archaeological excavation in the north-east ground floor room of Hyde Park Barracks, 1981. Robert Varman looking at Elizabeth Pinder, with three volunteers


Archaeological surveying, ground floor of Hyde Park Barracks, 1981.


Underground of the south-east room before excavation, Hyde Park Barracks, 1980.


Removing the floor joists in the south-east room, ground floor before excavation, Hyde Park Barracks, 1980.


Archaeologist with dust mask removing decades of accumulated deposit from beneath the floorboards, Hyde Park Barracks, 1980.


Archaeologists at work sieving underground deposits for artefacts, Hyde Park Barracks excavations, 1981


Level 1 long dormitory of Hyde Park Barracks, during PWD restorations, 1979-80, photographed before archaeological excavations began.


Level 3 south eastern dormitory, Hyde Park Barracks, during PWD restoration, showing the first floorboards removed and sub-floor deposits, c1979-80


Artefacts recovered from sub-floor spaces, Level 2 or Level 3, Hyde Park Barracks, during PWD restoration, c1979-80.


Artefacts recovered from sub-floor spaces, Level 2 or Level 3, Hyde Park Barracks, during PWD restoration, c1979-80


Artefacts recovered from sub-floor spaces, Level 1 or Level 2, Hyde Park Barracks, during PWD restoration, 1979-80


Artefacts recovered from sub-floor spaces, Level 2 or Level 3, Hyde Park Barracks, during PWD restoration, c1979-80


Artefacts recovered from sub-floor spaces, Level 2 or Level 3, Hyde Park Barracks, during PWD restoration, c1979-80


Artefacts recovered from sub-floor spaces, Level 2 or Level 3, Hyde Park Barracks, during PWD restoration, c1979-80


Artefacts recovered from sub-floor spaces, Level 2 or Level 3, Hyde Park Barracks, during PWD restoration, c1979-80