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

The final day started with one last site briefing from Miles Russell and Paul Cheetham, the project directors.  With ideal digging conditions many research questions have been answered despite the fact that there is still much to do and new questions always arising. In Area F, more cow bones have been found during the excavation… Read more » about Day 24 – the final day

In Area F, progress has been made and it has come about that the skeleton found yesterday by Selina and Sandy is that of a sheep. The remaining section of this pit has been uncovered today and has yielded some two Iron Age Black Burnished Ware pots. One was fractured and the other was complete… Read more » about Day 23 – penultimate day

Today has been filled with planning in area H with finishing touches being made on context and feature forms as well as section drawings and feature plans.  The ‘corn dryer’/lime kiln has been excavated with just one section still left to take out hopefully in the remaining two days; this can be done now as… Read more » about Day 22 – final stretch with finds still appearing