Thankfully the weather has improved greatly since yesterday, sadly our maths skills have not, as once again we were calculating the exact positions of the various finds. It would seem maths is not our forte, much to the disappointment of our leader. Once again we were taking measurement of how far above sea level the trench was, however, one person (who shall remain nameless [Becky]) underestimated the weight of the measuring stick and nearly knocked over the fence.
This is similar to what we were doing yesterday. However, we hope we’re better at in now as yesterday we underestimated our calculations by 41cm and as a result our team had to go without the biscuity rewards awarded to the others who overestimated theirs by a mere 2cm. Thankfully we are not in as much trouble as someone got into yesterday where they threw a recently uncovered plastic spider at someone else, not knowing he has arachnophobia.
All the drawings of the trench and the calculations involving the sea level were finished by the morning and so we set about clearing the gravel layer from the trench with much glee and rejoicing as it was a task that didn’t involve maths. The work isn’t too hard but does take a long time as the trench is so long so we have been mostly philosophising about the meaning of life and people asking me [Nicky] what it means to be Cornish.
Once again, we have gone another day without finding a horde of gold florins. However, today we have found many pieces of glass in a variety of colours; a button; a thimble; and yet more crockery to add to the growing tea set.
On the whole, the week has been very productive. We cleared the trenches in record time and have already found a lot of finds that have been fairly recently deposited. Work on several ‘rubble spreads’ will continue next week and we shall have to see if we find the walls of the castle that we are looking for.
By Rebecca Kelly and Nicola Main-Reade, Student volunteers.
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