Phil Harding and Lorraine Mepham, both key members of Channel 4’s ‘Time Team’, have been annually adding to the museum’s knowledge of the fascinating history of its building, by digging test pits during the Festival of Archaeology.
For 2019, the team intended on looking further at the history of what was once a simple storage building and has, over hundreds of years, been absorbed into the main structure of what is now the museum.