Today everyone was overjoyed (?) as Pete returned to work after his long skive. After the optimistic post yesterday stating that the demolition layer wouldn't take very long to remove today saw the team battling away with rock hard clay and rubble. Persevering through the wind and rain the site has now been levelled and is ready for the careful removal of about 7 inches of demolition filling the centre of the trench.
Here Hugh is either mucking in or is sick of Emma taking pictures, you decide!
Once again a plan of the trench is required to ensure that all the archaeology is recorded before layers and fills are removed to reveal earlier contexts. Planning in this case is quite fun as we have lots of masonry structures to draw (however you might not guess this by the look on Veronicas face!)
Veronica settles down to some more planning
Kourosh straightens the trench edge and Ian admires his latest find
Although it would be possible to use heavy tools to remove this demolition layer the decision was made to proceed with caution, using trowels and hand mattocks (apart from Lesley who used her mattock as a trowel on a stick, and with great success!). After getting a feel for the layers today, tomorrow will see the arrival of the 'big guns' the large mattocks and shovels.
Is it a mattocking machine? No! Its Lesley!
Supergirl Holly digs for treasure!
Find were literally jumping out of the ground today with "pot-girl" Rachel being called upon to identify sherds left, right and centre. Although she usually did this with the disdainful snort of a true connoisseur she had what could be referred to as a 90% accuracy rate!
The community aspect of the dig also moved on a pace with the local kids diligently sieving the spoil from trench two and jumping into the trench to get some serious digging done!
Dane gets his trowel dirty while keeping a watchful eye on proceedings
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