The day started with a welcome from Dr Clive Waddinton, director or Archaeological Research Services, our professional partner. The opportunity for students to work alongside professional archaeologists engaged in commercial practice brings a very real sense of purpose and professionalism to the field-school.
Key tasks today involve
- setting up of trench's ready for machine de-turfing tomorrow (students working with ARS geomatics expert Caitlin)
- starting off the test-pitting campaign in Grass Field (Tim Cockrell--see Tim's book here)
- undertaking geophysics in the Experimental field (Dave Inglis--See Roman Roans project here)
- developing Trench 1 (IA/Roman enclosure) as a tangible heritage resource for farm visitors
- starting the experimental post alignment and continuing work on the prehistoric house reconstruction.
Tim Cockrell taking students through the process of test-pitting
Colin Merrony discussing the challenges of consolidating excavated sites and their value as learning resources.
Level 1 student begining Test Pit survey
Grass Field outlined in Red. This area will be the site of excavations of anticipated Neolithic features. Geophyiscs and fieldwalking have indicated the presence of a ditched enclosure and linear alignments.
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