Post by YAT on Oct 29, 2010 13:01:24 GMT 1
Well we have been very busy since the end of the training dig in September, so here are some pictures of what we have been up to.
We started out with a big clean up on and off site
This was followed by shifting a lot of the Roman soil layer that spreads across the site.
The weather wasn't always on our side, but the team did a great job managing things - to be honest we have had pretty good weather for this time of year!
We completed the removal of the uppermost surviving barrel of the medieval well
The staves were in very good condition when they came out
When they were removed you could see the binding around the outside of the individual barrels as well as the way that the barrels had been linked together.
In the area that Artemi worked on in the summer we managed to reveal a rectangular feature which could be linked to the possible mausoleum structure?! - Still not a a clue what it is, but when we come round to digging it we should get a better idea.
We have also found some more really juicy Viking pits. In this one you can see a well preserved wicker sheet that has been used to stop the backfill of an earlier feature from collapsing into it.
The Roman soil has turned up some really nice features and finds. This cremation pot was actually revealed by water eroding the edge of another feature during heavy rain.
We made sure it was properly supported and then started to clean it up. You can see it had a lid made of a different fabric. The conservation team are currently working on the excavation of what was put inside it.
Another Roman feature contained this smaller pot/beaker.
A Roman burial we excavated last week proved to be disturbed at the top end by later activity, maybe the combination of a pit and a tree. However, where it had not been truncated we found another one of the spacer bead bracelets/armlets.
Finally... our Eagle Eyed team managed to spot this as they were removing a large volume of the Roman soil. It is about the same size as a modern 5p piece.
We started out with a big clean up on and off site
This was followed by shifting a lot of the Roman soil layer that spreads across the site.
The weather wasn't always on our side, but the team did a great job managing things - to be honest we have had pretty good weather for this time of year!
We completed the removal of the uppermost surviving barrel of the medieval well
The staves were in very good condition when they came out
When they were removed you could see the binding around the outside of the individual barrels as well as the way that the barrels had been linked together.
In the area that Artemi worked on in the summer we managed to reveal a rectangular feature which could be linked to the possible mausoleum structure?! - Still not a a clue what it is, but when we come round to digging it we should get a better idea.
We have also found some more really juicy Viking pits. In this one you can see a well preserved wicker sheet that has been used to stop the backfill of an earlier feature from collapsing into it.
The Roman soil has turned up some really nice features and finds. This cremation pot was actually revealed by water eroding the edge of another feature during heavy rain.
We made sure it was properly supported and then started to clean it up. You can see it had a lid made of a different fabric. The conservation team are currently working on the excavation of what was put inside it.
Another Roman feature contained this smaller pot/beaker.
A Roman burial we excavated last week proved to be disturbed at the top end by later activity, maybe the combination of a pit and a tree. However, where it had not been truncated we found another one of the spacer bead bracelets/armlets.
Finally... our Eagle Eyed team managed to spot this as they were removing a large volume of the Roman soil. It is about the same size as a modern 5p piece.