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A damp drizzly day, but certainly not enough to stop our diggers! We have now succeeded in uncovering & cleaning up all but the far east side of the path to the front gateway. As the path approached the gateway, so it rose in height to meet the higher ground level outside the wall relative […]

Sunday started with some very heavy showers, but these soon grew lighter and wider apart – until even the sun came out! We have now cleaned up the western most 3m of the front of the house, including the front doorway. The old scullery floor of 5cm thick terracotta floor tiles were cut by the […]

Despite a damp start, good progress was made excavating over (and either side of) the front door step and the remains of the doorway to the house itself. Its front door step was of a large stone slab, with a brick edge where it meets the house. Sadly, we have discovered that when the Newmarket […]

Sunday’s dig succeeded in finishing the excavation of the grid square over the path towards the front door, down to its former ground surface. No new features but plenty of finds. The images above show parts of a length of collapsed cast iron guttering sitting upside down directly on the paved path surface. It was […]

Despite the early morning thunderstorm, the weather cleared up and 3 volunteers did a great days digging. We excavated down through the demolition rubble in the north and west parts of the 2x2m grid square between the south-east corner of the outside toilet and a short distance from the front of the house. Lots more […]

Sunday’s dig benefited from both the cooler temperatures and the rain from the day before – which softened the ground nicely. Excellent progress was made excavating down through the demolition rubble over the path from the toilet towards the front garden gate in one direction, and the front door of the house in the other. […]

Friday was a great day for finds as well as, I hope, for our 5 volunteers. We finished excavating the area in which we had previously been working and opened a new 2x2m grid square over the path to the front door of the house. After cleaning up the north side of the path, heading […]

All digs have their ups and downs – and Sunday was certainly one of them! Another hot day – almost too hot – but Peggy and I battled the heat in our continued search for the front garden gate. The previous grid square was extended 1m to the east, but still no sign of it; […]

Despite the heat, Friday’s dig had a good crowd of 5 diggers and a visit from a former resident – Peggy’s bother Reg Latham – who was just 5 years old when they were forced to leave by the military. He found a short length of cast iron guttering in the bulldozed mound of demolition […]

On Thursday we had a site visit from Simon of SeSurveying.co.uk – for an estimate of the cost of installing and mapping some survey control points; and he offered to sponsor us with a free hi-tech 3-d laser scan of our archaeology for the end of the dig – capable of resolving individual bricks! This […]