Paul and I were a part of a team of 7 volunteers who carried out various excavation tasks on site today. We started the day’s work by finishing off the sondage in Trench 1. In this sondage, we made 3 finds which were a unidentified metal object which resembles a key, an oyster shell and a small animal bone, possibly from a bird.
I moved on to the middle section of Trench 1 where I assisted John and John in cleaning up the area, which contained patches of burned material such as charcoal and clay. We photographed our finished work and left the area for tomorrow’s team.
Trench 2: Paul and Cloe began removing layers of soil and rubble to expose the bedrock underneath. They found a mixture of obviously modern plastics, a bath chain and also some ambiguous pottery.
The remaining 3 volunteers (John, Lynne and Pauline) were working in the northern area of Trench 1 around the base of what we think may be the drum tower, continuing work that was begun yesterday. More pottery was found here, as well as a substantial amount of glass and a few more metal objects. The work this group did paid dividends as we are beginning to see what may be more of a structure appearing underneath the rubble.
Michael Summers (Volunteer)
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