Day Eight: A Tudor Kitchen?

Today turned out to be a good one. The weather was fine and the team was productive with archaeological features aplenty! Along with some top notch excavating today, Veronica and Sandy finished their plan drawing of Trench One and Clare and Morgan finished their elevation survey of the south wall of the west range! Hurrah!

With a helping hand from our community volunteers, there was a lovely clean up in Trench 2.

Trench 2 in the process of having a clean up, a spot the digger competition.

"Not so new" Will, Freya and Emma were working around the fireplace area and uncovered some lovely little suprises. Some of the stonework in this section had small slots worked into them. It is possible that these slots were put there for beams to hold fittings such as sinks. This has led Hugh to ponder as to whether or not we have found ourselves a Tudor Kitchen! Furthermore, a corner to the fireplace was found today which implies that the structure could be far more substantial than we first anticipated. Exciting times! Check back for further developments!

Freya seems to be having a lovely time in the oven.

Outside of the kitchen area, there was a lot of focus today on placing sections across walls in Trench One. This involved placing and excavating separate "slots" within Trench One in an attempt to see how old these sections are. At the moment, we are mostly concerned with identifying areas that have been affected by superficial clearance on the site in the 1950s.

Veronica and Jude working hard in Trench One. The parallel pieces of string show where they are excavating a section.

Kaya and Matt starting another section of a wall in Trench One.

That is all for today keen archaeologists! Don't forget to pay a visit to The Friends of Monk Bretton Priory.

Find of the Day: Kitchen!

Quote of the Day: "This looks like it could be marginally, MARGINALLY sexy!" - Dr. Hugh Willmott on the fireplace.