Great to get back to digging again and this weekend the sun shone for us. Derek got us a good gig in a 16th century cottage garden. The only frustration being that all the garden had been built up so down to about 0.5m all the archaeology was mixed up , so not telling us anything.
No Ivor this weekend but as well as myself, Kevin, Derek & Nigel we had with us Lucy , Alison & Catherine & Dave. Too many for one test pit really but not all were there the whole weekend.
Got cracking and were soon down to 10cm, cleaned up and recorded. As I say a nice selection of finds, pottery & clay pipe but all very mixed. Alot of Victorian blue & white and some Medieval green glazed sherds. Got down to 0.7m and calamity! Uncovered a drainage pipe. Bugger, bugger, bugger!
The owner did know there was a drain there & marked it for us but his mark was out abit!
Cleaned up and adjourned to the Musgrave Arms for post dig analysis. The guest beer was called Jeffery Hudson, very light and citrusy, and very refreshing it was.
Day two saw us extend the pit away from the pipe to give us more space to work. Got that extra bit down to 0.7m as well and went down another context which didn't reveal very much. Time Team always had three days to excavate, we only have two, so it was time to back fill, which I hate!
Last post dig analysis at The Musgrave and that was it. Frustrating though it was it was a cracking weekend.
No Ivor this weekend but as well as myself, Kevin, Derek & Nigel we had with us Lucy , Alison & Catherine & Dave. Too many for one test pit really but not all were there the whole weekend.
Got cracking and were soon down to 10cm, cleaned up and recorded. As I say a nice selection of finds, pottery & clay pipe but all very mixed. Alot of Victorian blue & white and some Medieval green glazed sherds. Got down to 0.7m and calamity! Uncovered a drainage pipe. Bugger, bugger, bugger!
The owner did know there was a drain there & marked it for us but his mark was out abit!
Cleaned up and adjourned to the Musgrave Arms for post dig analysis. The guest beer was called Jeffery Hudson, very light and citrusy, and very refreshing it was.
Day two saw us extend the pit away from the pipe to give us more space to work. Got that extra bit down to 0.7m as well and went down another context which didn't reveal very much. Time Team always had three days to excavate, we only have two, so it was time to back fill, which I hate!
Last post dig analysis at The Musgrave and that was it. Frustrating though it was it was a cracking weekend.
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