Saffron Walden Museum

Earlier this year we had an enquiry from Historian, Aidan Harrison based in Northumberland, asking if we would be interested in a commission to do some photography at Saffron Walden Museum.

Having worked with many Museums and Historical sites in the past, this was something we were most definitely interested in. The subject Aidan was researching was a Four Poster Bed, which he believed to be around 500 years old. After a visit to the site first to check if there were any lighting restrictions etc, we arranged a date. To determine the beds age Aidan also commissioned a company based in London to have the bed Carbon14 dated at the same time as the photography, a process which I found extremely interesting, watch this space to see the results later this year........

​Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon.

As you can see from the images bellow, probably not as comfortable as a Hypnos or Simba mattress , but obviously worked.