Sunday was another very hot sunny day, which partly explains why just two volunteers came to dig. The area excavated was immediately to the east of the outside toilet and immediately to the south of the front garden boundary wall – an area of about 1.5m by 2m. The tools used were a chillington hoe […]
Author: David Cuthbertson
Sharing my explorations of the world around me, both locally and philosophically.
For a couple of hours on Sunday, Peggy will be supervising our dig whilst I join Huw Morgan on a guided walk around Castle Hill nature reserve. He will be calling in on our dig on his way back. For those interested it will be a great opportunity to discover some of the wildlife and […]
Five volunteers helped dig in search of the front garden gate and the path to Newmarket Farm cottage’s front door. Just like the adjacent grid squares, it was full of a thick layer of demolition rubble. Whilst we still have more digging to do to find these particular features, there was a nice range of […]
Not being fans, this Sunday my mother and I went digging instead of watching the tennis! Luckily the summer heat was made tolerable by a nice cooling breeze up on the hill. We have now fully excavated the inside of the outside toilet and can confirm it had a side doorway to access the […]
The outside toilet’s stone floor, doorstep and path all extended beyond the edge of Wednesday’s trench, so four volunteer diggers on Friday extended the trench sideways to further its excavation. Our discoveries included: a substantial slot for a door hinge; Red (lead?) paint splashes on some of the external surfaces (which matched the red paint […]
Wednesday we had a visit by my cousin’s family – aged from 11 to 94 – all of whom wanted to visit the dig. Five minutes digging by the 3 children – under the strict supervision of their Dad and myself – quickly became two hours as soon as they started to find: a very […]
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We did no digging either Friday 28th June due to rain, though we did give a guided tour for a new volunteer. Digging was also cancelled the following Sunday. Both Saturday and Sunday were spent ‘networking’ at two local village summer celebrations – the Woodingdean Carnival and the Falmer Flower Festival – and both were […]
This Sunday’s dig was in the grid square encompassing the north-west junction of the garden/farmyard wall and the front garden/property boundary wall, over the site of the outside toilet. There was strong evidence that both flint walls had collapsed into this area, and about 20cm deep of demolition rubble has so far been excavated. As […]
Friday we continued to dig down through a 2m x 1m part of a grid square between the garden/farmyard wall, the probable path to the outside toilet, the probable path to the front door, and the front of the house. This was clearly where they dumped much of their rubbish. Practically every scrape of the […]
Sunday started miserably with light drizzle – but not enough to stop us digging – and then the sun came out! The corner of a corrugated iron sheet in the bottom of our latest trench was found to be protecting a partly decayed wooden post. As soon as wood is exposed to the elements further […]
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