End of Season #1 at Stalbridge

This years digging has been a great success, with many new diggers and many questions answered as to the structural features of Stalbridge House, especially the discovery of the Great Drain. Lets hope that the 'Great Seller' will be found next season.

We have had some lovely finds (see below) and visits from local schools, the Open Day and plans for more talks open to all villagers and people in the area.

As for other projects in West Dorset, we have started geophiz surveys at Symondsbury and look forward to doing the same at the Fleet site soon. Keep looking in for those results. 

More special finds

Nice wooden button

Lovely fragment of glass, probably a goblet and 17th c. 

Fragment of architrave as seen on the painting between the floor levels.

Profile of the architrave.

Special find

Nice find came up this week on the Stalbridge site. Some letters can be discerned. 

Open Day pix

Members visit the site.

Chris explains the wall sequence that proves the refurbishment of the house.

Members see the corner of the house in trench G1 

The pony takes an interest too.

Chris going through the seasons digging and some of the finds.

Open Day

The Open Day for members of DDCAG & SHS went very well, with c. 30 people coming to the talks and visiting the site. A general open day for non-members and Stalbridge villagers will be organized later. We may have pix to show later too.

Jamb yesterday

Some new features came up this week. More walls, heading SE led to a possible door jamb with a nice in situ floor surface. Our digger John suggests that this is internal and 90 degrees to the outside entrance. Interesting. That is the thing with archaeology - new diggers can come up with ideas just like any old lag and help to make sense of complicated sites.   

Possible wall outside the drain

The 'door jamb'