According to his younger friend John Bagford, Conyers "made it his chief Business to make curious Observations and to collect such Antiquities as were daily found in and about London.
"[2] His antiquarian collection won praise from the Athenian Mercury[1] and there was talk of opening it to the public, although this does not seem to have happened.
Conyers was present at the excavation in 1679 of the remains of a supposed elephant from a gravel bed at Battlebridge (King's Cross).
[1] A celebrated shield, bought by Conyers from a London ironmonger, was sold after his death by one of his daughters to John Woodward.
[7] Dr Woodward's Shield, also now in the British Museum, is now recognised as a classicising French Renaissance buckler of the mid-16th century, perhaps sold from the Royal Armouries of Charles II, but was thought by Woodward and others to be an original Roman work.