Back to the garden near Corfe Castle on a lovely sunny day. We backfilled Test Pit #1 after recording and then carried on with Test Pit #2, which reached a depth of 1m, so the feature detected at that depth had to remain unexcavated. The stratigraphy being sandy, it was decided that H&S kicked in. Very frustrating. We had several more pieces of pottery come up, again looking like BBW, but this could have been redeposited from higher up the slope from the crown of the hill to the west, as the finds did not come from a secure context.
So, we decided to open up Trench #3. This was 2m x 3m in size and we hoped that we would find some sort of feature running N-S across the lawn, according to the geophysics results. However, we only found very deep deposits and modern finds. Having dug a sondage (a small trench in one corner to inspect the stratigraphy) and finding nothing resembling a feature, or even interesting stratigraphy, we gave up and backfilled.
