skipwith

[mel]

Hi Toby just a quick note to say I enjoyed your article on Skipwith in Yorkshire Archaeology Today. Is the weekend of the 27th November still on for shopping and drinking and talking and drinking and eating and drinking ? Is everyone coming this time? Mel

[Toby]

Cheers........

I had been given the brief for it a while before it needed to be done, with the hope that i would be able to get into the office to work on drawings and such like for it. But, as many of you know, the excavations were still underway when the deadline approached. So I ended up writing it on the morning of submission, within the tower of the church, on a makeshift bench...... My life is so hard (joke!). Thankfully Patrick and the rest of the publications department managed to pull together an article out of what i produced.

On a side note the photographs were the more scenic shots, some by Roo, some by myself. I had created a disk with some of the more interesting burial images, though they were perhaps not appropriate for the article.

I am still working on stuff from the tower, spending the last couple of weeks staring at stone and creating drawings from rectified shots. Colin Briden (an external consultant that the Trust uses) is the brains behind the building work, and it appears initially that the tower is not as complex as the material excavations revealed below...... but there are some 'interesting' features. Obviously they will be put to print, digital/paper, at some point in the future.

There are already 4 lectures lined up for the work from there, so i am glad that there is plenty to talk about.


The weekend of the 27th November is still cool with me. I am putting in plenty of practice, making sure my beer elbow does not lock up.


I better get on with drawing stones.


Toby