A milestone 7,500 hours of specialist intrusive and disruptive surveying work has been completed since July 2022

This work, in addition to the tens of thousands of hours of planning and visual inspection research completed since 2018 will inform decisions about essential restoration work of the historic Palace of Westminster.

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Throughout the 7,500 hours many important findings have been made, including the unearthing of an intricately carved 200-year-old fish made from animal bone. The fish, a gaming counter possibly used in 18^th Century card games, was found by Roland Tillyer, Senior Geoarchaeologist at Museum of London Archaeology whilst monitoring the digging of a borehole deep in the earth under the House of Lords’ Royal Court.