Keeping you posted

This week we have found more postholes and cleaned up the foundation. 

Another posthole being excavated. One of three we have found in a line.

 

The foundation is now looking very nice and shows the courses that still exist.

This piece of Ham stone came up from a small trial trench and is the same as two examples of architectural stone now in the local pub.

This very nice stone-lined posthole indicates a very large twin gate (put together with the other two postholes) or the small building that is indicated on one of the images we have of this elevation.

This posthole has been cut through this foundation.

The foundation has certainly been knocked about and only survives as a handful of stones in a line heading ot the bottom of this image, with the posthole on the opposite side. The other two postholes are situated next to the baulk, one by the bag and the other by the yellow bucket.  

Trying to find the foundation, but it fades out as it heads NW.

The posthole that cuts through the scruffy foundation. It has been dug the same way as the others two; first a pit and then a stone-lined hole for the timber post.

The third posthole with the very nice stone lining.

This small trial trench was dug to see if the neat foundation ran toward the garden wall, just to the right of this digger (it did), and it produced a nice bonus of the Ham stone fragments.