Aug 52 min readA visit from the Time Team Busy day today finishing off last bits of digging and recording whilst cursing the intermittent torrential downpours interspersed with...
Aug 41 min readHandles and pivotsKeith gets star find today with this piece of worked bone handle, nicely smoothed but the holes drilled in it seem by contrast to be done...
Aug 11 min readSheep and shadowsFinal big site photo clean today followed by the usual frustrating wait for enough cloud cover to take the photos without shadows,...
Jul 312 min readBone points and big grinsStar find today is this bone tool, pointed at one end and spatula like at the other end, so maybe one end for decorating pottery and the...
Jul 301 min readBone pins and sandbagsJackie, on temporary loan to us from Wessex Archaeology, had several star finds of the day with a little cache of bone needles, worked...
Jul 292 min readSun, sea and waterproof microphonesA scorching hot day today and everyone was both sweaty and also sticky with sun cream, then also covered in midge repellent as the wind...
Jul 282 min readOpen day and it didn't rain - result!It was our Open Day today, which meant that several of the team transmogrified themselves from diggers into Vikings and Iron Age folk,...
Jul 252 min readPhoto cleaning frenzyHot and muggy day today which finished with a big photo clean just in time before showery rain came in, which at least discouraged the...
Jul 242 min readBumper star finds editionDouble dig diary today to make up for the non-appearance of yesterday's, and we start with a very nice star find of a fish tailed bone...
Jul 221 min readSpindle whorls, slag and sandbagsKeith takes star find today for his stone spindle whorl, the thumbs up is because I told him to look enthusiastic about it: Rose then got...