Site Diary: Site Code lbf07 Intervention 03
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The most recent diary entries are listed below in reverse order (to date there have been 8 entries for this site). Use the navigation buttons to see previous diary entries. Each entry is followed by five randomly selected photographs taken during that week.
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Area 2 has now been completed, with fieldwork finishing on Wednesday afternoon. The topsoil strip of Area 3 is due to start sometime soon, but as usual the timetable is fairly vague, and the road crossing that was supposed to start tomorrow has been postponed until the end of the month. So with much relief we've come in from the rain, full of cold, to start the post-excavation work for the haul road and areas 1 and 2, and to sip hot lemon juice and honey. Our respite will no doubt be short lived.
Over the last few days Dylan has finished excavating and recording the post-medieval field boundaries, while Dick and I have continued with sinkholes and other natural anomalies. Because of the rain one sinkhole (1172) has been left un-sampled until weather conditions improve or quarrying has begun and the water table is reduced. The other sinkholes have all been sampled, and 20 percent of the remaining assumed natural anomalies investigated, drawn, photographed, recorded and surveyed.
Work has continued, despite miserable weather conditions, with the excavation of sections through a group of three intersecting post-medieval field boundary ditches. Apart from those ditches, most of the other features we have investigated this week have been of natural origin. These have included three sinkholes (two of which look quite promising in terms of environmental information) though there has been so much rain this week one has been temporarily abandoned before a sample could be taken - I was too muddy to continue with it and groundwater was flowing in from the cut edges. How I would love to dig some interesting archaeology
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