Saturday, 26 May 2018

Doing the donkey work

We arrived on site after a meeting with Stalbridge History members to set out the first trench in our work on the manor house. New member Doris the Donkey was there to say Nay or Bray.
Our first trench is numbered 1G, the first of many, we hope. 
The trenches will be sited between the bank on the left and the cows on the right.

The trench is situated on the top right corner just to the right of the blue line (trough), so we hope to find evidence of the structure there. 

Stripping will be done on 2nd June. 

The 5m square test trench has proved very fruitful. Ditch features and Early Medieval dating evidence has been produced and the evidence sug...