{"id":73,"date":"2011-06-07T23:30:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T23:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk\/the-big-dig\/?p=73"},"modified":"2014-06-12T14:47:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T14:47:46","slug":"day-3-all-becomes-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/2011\/06\/07\/day-3-all-becomes-clear\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Dig &#8211; Day 3: All becomes clear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The site is clean of topsoil after today\u2019s hard work from all year groups. The first years cleared the remains of the baulks from last year, revealing more intriguing pits and features to be excavated over the coming days. Some began to trowel into and sectioned a ditch which continues on from one investigated in last year\u2019s excavation.\u00a0 Others started to excavate an area of a geophysical anomaly and all were eager to get stuck into features.<\/p>\n<p>The second years were trowelling back an area\u00a0expected to contain\u00a0part of a Roman building. Several walls gradually appeared, along with roofing tiles and animal bones.<\/p>\n<p>The entrance to the banjo enclosure was cleared by some of the third years, while the rest of them re-exposed last year\u2019s excavated later Roman house platform terraced into the hillside.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s finds included a small piece of painted plaster, which further supports the idea that at some point a building of higher status was at this site. There was also kitchenware and high status tableware.<\/p>\n<p>Wrists and shoulders are in pain after extensive trowelling and doing the wheel barrow runs up the ever growing spoil heap. However, hopes are heightened at the prospect of discovering ancient \u2018treasures\u2019 buried in the Dorset chalk as features start to be excavated.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lauren and Zoe<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<div id=\"attachment_74\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/files\/2011\/06\/day3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74\" src=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/files\/2011\/06\/day3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"397\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-74\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Day 3: Animal bone on a Roman surface, a sherd from a mortarium, and the site fully up and running<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_82\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/files\/2011\/06\/Pre-excavtion-Planning.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82\" class=\"size-full wp-image-82\" src=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/files\/2011\/06\/Pre-excavtion-Planning.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"387\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-82\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Day 3: The pre-excavation planning of features exposed during trowelling<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The site is clean of topsoil after today\u2019s hard work from all year groups. The first years cleared the remains of the baulks from last year, revealing more intriguing pits and features to be excavated over the coming days. Some began to trowel into and sectioned a ditch which continues on from one investigated in&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/2011\/06\/07\/day-3-all-becomes-clear\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about The Big Dig &#8211; Day 3: All becomes clear<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":272,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-diary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}