Unfortunately today the weather has been “changeable”, meaning we have had to endure all four seasons every few hours. Due to this, work is going slowly as we all have to keep stopping to take shelter as the rain is occasionally so heavy we have to wait until it stops in order to continue.
Despite all this, a lot has been done today. The top part of trench one has been cleaned and will be photographed (when the rain has stopped) and plans will be drawn up (again, when the rain has stopped as the sogginess of the paper is an issue). A sub trench is currently being opened up against the wall in trench one to see if it is buttressed which will give us a clue as to what sort of structure it belonged to: it’s difficult to say if this is easier or harder in the wet as while the earth comes up in fairly large chunks, it is increasingly difficult to stay upright because of all the mud. The volunteers in the sub trench in the middle of trench one are making detailed drawings of the inside of the trench walls.
Trench 3 have been taking out the wall they found to see if there was any further structure under what was there.
In trench 2 today they found an old padlock as well as half a ceramic bowl but we have been unable to date it yet. They also found a coin from 1928. They have mostly been digging in order to see if there is any correlation between the levels of bedrock in trenches 2 and 3.
By Nicola Main-Reade, student volunteer.
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