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on the last scheduled day of the excavation generated considerable press and public interest, debates in
Parliament and discussion in the Cabinet. The excavation was extended, allowing further discoveries to be made, but delaying the construction. Although Bucklersbury House was built over the
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Director of the National Museum of Wales. Grimes became an assistant keeper of archaeology at the National Museum of Wales, working with the newly appointed keeper of archaeology,
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in 1963–64. He served on many commissions and committees with a variety of official bodies and archaeological societies and organisations, including the
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