Sunday’s dig ended with torrential rain, though fortunately it stayed dry until afternoon tea-break, so some good digging managed to be done. We now know for sure that the east wall of the extension (to the south end of the cottage) has been lost. Its approximate location was only discernible from the changes in the […]
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Work continues getting the site ready for our guided tours on both Sat 2nd & Sun 3rd Nov; finishing the our current (and last of this dig season) trench tidying up our earlier trenches clearing back the vegetation across the site as a whole, ensuring safe access for our visitors – initial interest in the […]
The afternoon before, and all the next day, were both too wet to dig. So this afternoon my mother and I snuck in half a day’s digging. We even had a WW2 biplane fly over, then swing back round to have a closer look – as well as one of the best finds of the […]
As planned, the dig moved round to south end of the cottage and a 3x2m area was opened. Unfortunately progress was stopped by rain shortly before lunch. The clearance of a thick mat of bramble and nettle was not helped by a preponderance of particularly prickly thistles! So, as yet, there is little to report […]
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Just discovered I hadn’t posted this article, which I started writing back in June, to inform people that my free Flickr photo account had just increased its storage allowance by a huge amount. Now, (all) almost all of my photos are available to view of the dig: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scienceinthegreen/ Unfortunately there are other photos included in with […]
Some real progress was made with our dig, despite no new finds, or features. We also had a very welcome visit from John Funnel (in charge of digging with Brighton & Hove Archaeological Society)! The day was spent extending Friday’s trench by an extra 2x2m, to completely take in, further excavate and clean up the […]
A really good day – despite the wet start; new finds, new features and new survey control points! Simon of SeSurveying.co.uk came over with some fancy kit to enable us to get our site properly surveyed. Four control points were fixed in place, and can now be used to locally survey as well as to […]
The Newmarket Farm Dig has made excellent progress. We have dug far more of the site than I originally planned, but there are also many areas I had hoped to dig which we may not manage to complete before the end of the year. Time is running short for this year’s dig – about 20 […]
Sunday we did an excellent job excavating and cleaning up the area encompassing the remains of the east side of the kitchen, the woodstore which butted against the first ~2m of its outer east wall, and the mystery concrete platform which butted against the rear of the ~1m wide woodstore, and against the last ~1.4m […]
Friday’s dig opened a new 2x2m grid square over the back of the ‘woodstore’ on the east side of the north frontage of the house, as well as over a structure shown on a plan as being immediately beyond it, either adjacent to, or part of, the south-east side of the kitchen/scullery. We also cleaned […]
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