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Friday turned out to be a really beautiful sunny day, following some very heavy overnight rain, which resulted in the cottage’s beautiful terracotta floor tiles looking at their very, very best! The site as a whole was able to be photographed looking incredibly shiny & clean.   The ongoing one metre square being excavated over […]

A very wet morning was spent continuing the excavation of the east side of the front garden gateway. The photograph above was taken last week – on Sunday it was far too wet to take any photos on site. In the demolition rubble over loose (probable) flint cobbles, a relatively large number of finds were […]

A cloudy but (relatively) mild day, which just about stayed dry till it was time to go home. It was also one of the best days over the past couple of months of the dig for finds of both quality and quantity. It was a dig of two halves. The 3x1m area in front (north) […]

A sunny day, a squeaky clean site, some very nice finds, and a beautiful sunset – what more could we want! A big push was made to finish cleaning up the site, which resulted in our digging out a number of interesting finds. Shown above is part of a larger fragment of painted wall plaster, […]

A beautiful (cold) sunny day and more cleaning of the site. However, a welcome visit from a volunteer digger we hadn’t seen for a while enabled some more of the flint cobbled surface of the path just beyond the front garden gateway to be excavated. Unfortunately, for various reasons, I did not take any photos […]

Sunday was another cold dry day, and the sun even popped out for a quick visit from behind the clouds! Some good digging was done in a very narrow slot along the southern half of the outside of the east side of the cottage. This was down through the demolition rubble fill to the original […]

A challenging but rewarding day’s dig. The winter has well and truly set in, and with it a pressure to finish off our excavation of the cottage site before we have to shut the dig down. Our volunteers were therefore hard at it in the deepest of our trenches; narrow slots down through difficult demolition […]

A cold mostly dry bright day, but for those well dressed for the weather, some good digging was to be had. To the south of the cottage, a 2x2m area to the east of the later extension was the main area excavated. This area had been almost completely excavated previous to our guided tour a […]

A cold but mostly sunny day with nice finds. The west wall of the cottage was cleaned up sufficient to outline at least the top of its outer face. Last week’s excavation and cleaning of the western half of the front garden gateway and north boundary wall was also now recorded photographically; we hadn’t managed […]

Just discovered some interesting and potentially useful courses for those doing historical research – and some are free! They are run by the Institute of Historical Research, which is part of the University of London. They have a couple of courses which would be particularly useful to me; Data preservation, a course run as an […]