Sorry this post is a day late, but couldn't get onto the Internet last night. Well, a visit by the local constabulary this morning - no, they were just interested in the site and bizarrely enough loads of people had been going into the police station to ask about it.
Dale explaining himself to the local bobby...
Trench 1 progress has been made with clearing more debris off the top north-erast corner to expose a more level surface than the rest of the stone layer in the trench which appears to be a stone dump, possibly associated with Masterman's original excavations. Lots of cleaning back to expose the rest of the stones in this trench - and the odd bit of sawing of large tree roots! Lots more finds, including a nice rim sherd (the right date - early medieval),lumps of mortar, tile, some slag and at least a couple of nails. We're still in the subsoil, though...
Terry and Hazel exposing the flatter 'surface' of stones to the north east of Trench 1
Still very little in Trench 2 - there has been an almighty shifting of soil today though (look at that depth on the left hand side) and a gravelly layer has turned up in the south-east corner.
There's a geophysics anomoly (aka collapsed 13th century castle) under there somewhere!
Wildlife seen on site today: a sloe worm and a frog.
QueeneMab
Oh I thought you were going to tell me you had found "skellingtons" or sommat.
Nice lil froggy.
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