{"id":116,"date":"2011-08-11T08:06:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T07:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kmatthews.org.uk\/?p=116"},"modified":"2011-08-11T08:06:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T07:06:48","slug":"rain-stops-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kmatthews.org.uk\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"Rain stops play"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday 4 August 2011<\/p>\n

On site: nobody<\/p>\n

Weather: wet, occasionally heavy rain<\/p>\n

As predicted by the Met Office, today was a complete washout. It was raining when I woke up at 7 o’clock and continued to rain, on and off, until about 5 p.m.<\/p>\n

Caoimhín, Tony and I took the opportunity to go to Chris’s house to sort out the finds from the fieldwalking exercise in Stapleton’s Field last year. Chris had the impression that a lot of irrelevant material (stone, mostly) was collected. As it turned out, most collections of material were of genuine archaeological interest (even those containing twentieth-century material are of interest). We managed to finish the sorting by just after 4 o’clock, so the three of us had a full working day.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow’s weather forecast suggests that the rain will have gone by the early hours, so we should get a full day’s digging.<\/p>\n

As a bit of fun to brighten up an otherwise dismal day, here is Caoimhín’s video of the Day of Archaeology<\/a> on Friday of last week:<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Stapleton’s Field Dig 2011<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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