Hunting Hall Archaeology Blog

26th June 2025 : Dig Diary Day 25

Back to normal today having enjoyed the school visit yesterday. Still time for the end of day photo with the children dressed in Iron Age costumes and within the farm’s mock roundhouse. It was ladies day in trench 10 (well at least up to lunchtime. The absence of an archaeologist in the afternoon meant we curtailed proceedings early in this very complex trench). However, further work during the morning is emphasising that it’s likely there are at least two levels of archaeology, that is cobbles found above other, and likely much older stone structures. In trench 8 work continued through the day when the ‘boys from the black stuff’ continued lifting a variety of organic material such as limpet shells, snail shells and animal bones. Late in the day we had a visit from the former county archaeologist, Chris Burgess. It will be interesting to hear his opinions. Now only 3 days left in this year’s dig and thankfully the weather forecast suggests we’ll get full days. As always we’ll be there from 10 tomorrow.