Day 6

Today everyone was working at the front of the castle – some on the drum tower foundations and the rest of us further down excavating the Victorian rubble. We managed to expose a lot more of the foundations for the tower and they look pretty impressive now, making it easier to picture the towers actually standing. Working on the rubble was a lot less exciting as it was just backfill from some Victorian alterations from the castle. The sun beating down made the job that much harder too. What was clear in both trenches though was that the Victorians liked a drink and a picnic! We had lots of broken bottles, bones and china fragments coming out of the trench, possibly from the workers who filled the rubble in. In all it was a productive day, with the tower foundations really starting to take shape.
Sarah Goodwin - Volunteer