I started pot washing; there was no medieval material but a lot of Victorian and modern picnic left overs including coke and beer bottles, china plate’s oyster shells and chicken bones, which must have made a nice meal. We also recovered an intact belt buckle from Parish, which came from the rubble moved out of the Castle by Grant Francis and might have belonged to one of his work men! By lunch time it had started to rain and was too wet to do any more finds processing so I went and helped Andy, Cloe and the other volunteers excavating around the base of the medieval drum tower, it’s really exciting that we’ve managed to uncover the whole base, it really looks like it was built for Edward the first visit, a castle fit for a King! Hopefully we’ll find some really nice medieval finds now.
Charley James GGAT Project Archaeologist
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