The Big Dig

Friday  31 st May 2013 After two days of cleaning back, the features have become distinguished enough for excavation to properly begin. Taking feature size and proposed excavation technique into account, students are allocated a certain area and feature under a supervisor. For many students, this is the first archaeological feature they will have ever… Read more » about Day 3- Excavation Begins Once More

Thursday 30th May 2013 Today’s activities were also cleaning back and straightening the edges so that full excavation of features can begin. In addition to this, the environmental archaeology station has been getting set up as well as on-site finds processing beginning. The photo below shows the on-site finds station, which undertakes sorting, cleaning and… Read more » about Day 2- Coinage and jewellery

Wednesday 29th May 2013 The first day of the “Durotriges Big Dig 2013” has arrived, which means straightening the site perimeters and cleaning back the next areas to be excavated. After five years of excavating, the site so far has revealed multi-phase occupation and/or activities from the discovery of the two Bell Beaker burials to… Read more » about Day 1- Kicking off the Big Dig