Hunting Hall Archaeology Blog
A daily account of our Hunting Hall dig.
5th June : Dig Diary Day 4
We enjoyed much better weather than we anticipated today. No howling gale, no rain and just a bit warmer. Ideal for archaeology. We focussed on three areas again, still in the cleaning up phase but this still gave us our first serious find. A small piece of ceramic rim that we believe to be from a wheel spun pot from the Late Iron Age / Romano-British period. That sits well in our story because it was in a spot adjacent to finds from previous years that have been radiocarbon dated to the first century AD. Alistair spent the day cleaning the ‘Big Stones’ to get back to how we left them in 2019. Lots of unfinished work still to do there. There are several more days of ‘cleaning’ the site before the more serious excavation begins. We’ve opened a very large area this year and we really need more volunteers, no matter how much archaeology experience you have, to get the most out of this year’s dig. Please don’t hesitate to drop in on us. Every hour of your time will help. Looking like a half decent day tomorrow in terms of the weather so we’ll be there from 10.00. Please join us.
