{"id":89,"date":"2011-07-31T22:10:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T21:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kmatthews.org.uk\/?p=89"},"modified":"2011-07-31T22:10:50","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T21:10:50","slug":"getting-ready-to-excavate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kmatthews.org.uk\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Getting ready to excavate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday 29 July 2011; Day of Archaeology<\/a><\/p>\n

On site: Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews, Caoihm\u00edn \u00d3 Caoile\u00e1in, Chris Hobbs, David Sims, Si\u00e2n O’Neill, Nick Smith, Tony Driscoll, William Peters, Sophia Brookes, Elizabeth Brookes, Pauline Gimson, Sid Rowe, David Croft, Ursula Scott, Ann Pegrum<\/p>\n

Weather: overcast, dry; much cooler than yesterday!<\/p>\n

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The inner ditch of the henge seen in section; it has been cut secondarily into the inside of the bank<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Today we ought to begin the archaeological investigation proper. William is planning Trench IV, starting at the south. Sophia, Elizabeth, Pauline, David, Nick and Si\u00e2n are finishing the cleaning of Trench I, after which it can be planned. Tony is taking Ursula, David and Ann through basic context recording procedures. Caoimh\u00edn and Chris are doing the traverse from the Church Field temporary bench mark across to the site. I\u2019m trying to remember to tweet about the Day of Archaeology<\/a>; our first post<\/a> went up just before lunch.<\/p>\n

I can now be confident that the material inside the outer chalk deposit is later: it\u2019s the fill of the inner ditch that shows on the geophysics. This would have been impossible to cut secondarily into a mound and can only have been done if the outer ring of chalk is the remains of a primary bank. So we really do have a formative henge and I can stop fretting!<\/p>\n

Caoimh\u00edn did some video recording over the lunch break. He\u2019s going to edit them and I\u2019ll post them at a future date. My second post for Day of Archaeology<\/a> has now gone live.<\/p>\n

Planning and recording is proceeding well. So far, I\u2019m very happy with our progress.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve not blogged much today because I\u2019ve been concentrating on the Day of Archaeology<\/a> and trying to remember to tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Filed under: Fieldwork<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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