Hunting Hall Archaeology Blog
A daily account of our Hunting Hall dig.
14th June 2025 : Dig Diary Day 13
Once again our thanks to Deb Campbell as editor in chief of today’s diary. Today was a meeting of the Despondent Men’s Club! Dreich really doesn’t cover it but despite the miserable weather 5 of us got stuck into trench 10 today defying all the heavens could throw at us. Very good progress was made in uncovering more of the ‘big stones’. Without doubt this is our ‘palisade’ but the size and volume of stones raises the question of this feature being attributable to a period other than our late Iron Age community. More bone was retrieved and additional contexts discovered. To the south there was further work on the ‘pathway’ within the cobbles. This seems to be resolving into two features: a linear feature going east to west and an overlying (?) feature initially trowelled by Kristian which he worked on again today revealing a gritty surface suggestive of burning and high temperatures. Interestingly as the possible boundary of this feature was cleared, charcoal and slag were recovered. A miserable day was turned into a successful one and with the weather set to hold we should have both trenches in perfect condition for work tomorrow! We’ll be there from 10.00.
