The Big Dig

Friday  28th June 2013 Day 23- The End is Here Today was the official last day of the site and the whole site was packing up their stations, finishing features and getting as much done as possible. Of course on such a day, some of the most spectacular features and finds emerged from within the… Read more » about Day 23-The End is Here

Thursday 27th June 2013 Day 22-Construction and Unicorns Today the ritual nature of the Iron Age population had to be taken into consideration as student James Osborne recovered a strange deposit in the terminus end of the boundary ditch. The strange deposit in question was a horse skull, which is actually considered normal ritual behaviour… Read more » about Day 22- Construction and Unicorns

Wednesday 26th June 2013 Day 21- A House is not a Home Many of the features interpreted as house platforms or house terraces have had surprising results once excavation was undertaken. For example at the top North-West corner of the site, a previously thought to be house platform had too steep sides in one section… Read more » about Day 21- A House is not a Home

Tuesday 25th June 2013 Day 20-Gullies and Brooches Often in archaeology, what is recovered is broken, either deliberately by the people depositing it or already broken from use or bad manufacture. Unfortunately, fresh breaks can also occur due to the nature of digging itself but there are various techniques to be able to tell the… Read more » about Day 20- Gullies and Brooches

Monday 24th June 2013 Day 19-The Beginning of the End Today marks the first day of the last week for this season of the dig. It is extremely important to get as many features finished as possible as this is the last year on the area! In light of this, BSc Archaeology student Afifa Khan… Read more » about Day 19- The Beginning of the End