The work at Oystermouth Castle has now been concluded and all our hard work is now done, on site at least. Trenches were backfilled at the end of last week, with only a small amount of work slipping into Monday.
The team of volunteers, students and GGAT staff battled against the elements and the clock on Thursday and Friday to try and get all three Trenches excavated, recorded and backfilled by hand.
Trench 2 was the first to be completed and ticked off the list by early Thursday evening.
Trench 3 followed suit on Friday afternoon – at times it was touch and go as the team in Trench 3 struggled to complete their task.
Meanwhile the remainder of Friday’s volunteers and students set about the task of trying to backfill Trench 1 in a single day, despite everyone’s best efforts and overtime from volunteers and students alike the task was not completed until Monday when a few generous volunteers lent a hand to finish work on site an make the remaining site staff’s lives a lot easier.
All the staff working on the project both on site and from the office would like to thank all our wonderful volunteers for giving up their time to help us out and make this community dig a big success, also thanks are due to students and staff from Swansea University who made up a part of the digging team.
It remains to be seen what the report on the work will conclude and if further investigations will be undertaken next year, the best thing for us all to do now is to wait and see so watch this space!
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