Wednesday 9th May 2018 Day 3

Day 3 

The sun was shining once again and everyone was enthusiastic to start their new tasks. 


Key tasks taking place today:

• Test pits 
• Geochemistry 
• Geophysics - electrical resistivity surveying 
• Flotation 
• The cleaning and restoring of excavation trench 1 
• Experimental archaeology 
• De-turfing 
• General finds cleaning

  The morning started with the de-turfing of the grass field to potentially find evidence of a henge monument. The smaller scale de-turfing took place in the experimental field where test pits were being dug by the students. Cleaning took place in the Turkey shed following test pits on day 2.

A new task for day 3 was to appoint a media team. Today saw the creation of new Sheffield archaeology at Whirlow instagram and twitter accounts documenting the different activities happening around the farm. This account will be handed over daily to new teams to record the progress of events over the following weeks, give these a follow for more regular updates. Tag #digwhirlow to find more posts and share yours with us.

   

De-turfing taking place in the grass field 

Small scale de-turfing taking place in experimental field for the test pits 

Clean up happening at trench 1 

Roger Doonan hard at work mapping the chemical concentration of the soil 

Students enjoying the sunny weather while having a break for lunch 

General cleaning of some of the artefacts found in the test pits in the grass field 

Disaster struck as the water supply broke at the flotation station, but trusty Colin managed to fix it and save the day. 

1700s lead glazed wheel thrown pottery found in the test pits on day 2 in the grass fields