Friday, 21 March 2025

Corfe 2.0

 


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 and then we will return to excavate this larger area.  



Thursday, 13 March 2025

Corfe Blimey!


Dorset Diggers members worked on digging test pits in a garden near Corfe Castle last week. several archaeological finds have been found in the area in the past and we now have several more!

One of the test pits.


A decorated piece of pottery, probably Romano-British.


A nice rim of similar date.

We will be returning soon to open up a 2m x 3m trench and hope to find more artefacts and features too. 







 

Corfe 2.0

  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...