Some pics of the cobble floor. Meanwhile, the fill of the possible cellar is reduced.
Saturday 31 August 2019
Friday 30 August 2019
We've been tagged
This very nice tag was unearthed this week |
An important new addition to our wall collection |
Saturday 24 August 2019
Our hopes are not floored.
Great news at Stalbridge: the new trench has produced a floor surface, plus possible evidence of the 'Great Sellar'. The next few weeks will be concentrating on these features. An exciting addition to our site.
The site dog keeps an eye on things |
The floor surface - with drain! |
The green clay to the left seems to be cut by the orange rubble material to the right. 'The Great Seller'? |
Monday 12 August 2019
Quality materials
Sunday 4 August 2019
It's been a trial...
Finishing off a trial trench then onto the main excavation to the north-west, where we will open a 5m square to see if the house wall runs in that direction and if it does we can open the area to 10m square by machine. Fingers crossed we get floor surfaces etc this time.
Trench Q awaiting back filling |
Reducing the overburden of dumped material by hand - hard work |
But worthwhile when more structures appear |
"You want this taken down by hand?!" |
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