Diary

Day 6 – finds processing

The weather conditions have not improved so there is no excavation on site today for first year students. The second and third years as well as some volunteers have therefore spent the day in a laboratory on the university campus cleaning and processing finds. There were so many finds from last year’s excavation that not… Read more » about Day 6 – finds processing

Day 5 – rain stops play

Today has proved difficult in the fact that the rain has made the site extremely muddy. In conditions like this, too many archaeologists really can ‘spoil the broth’ and the site can easily become very crowded, dirty and mucky again, something we ideally would like to avoid especially after spending a few days cleaning it…. Read more » about Day 5 – rain stops play

Day 2 – cleaning off and weeding

Today we have continued to clean the site and have completed the straightening of trench edges. The first year students experienced some trowelling this afternoon, cleaning back the soil to reveal the white chalk surface and exposing the archaeological features. The clean chalk clearly shows the ploughing damage that the site has undergone, which unfortunately… Read more » about Day 2 – cleaning off and weeding