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Uncategorized - Ipplepen Archaeological Project 2012 - Page 9

Students continue their investigations…

Student Gill investigated her feature further yesterday. Student Alison tells us that this should give us an idea which ditch cuts into the other ditch.

Reminder- Talk by Sam Moorhead Tuesday 14th August…

This is a reminder that Sam Moorhead (British Museum) will be giving a talk at the Village Hall in Ipplepen tomorrow evening, Tuesday 14th August, at 7.30pm. The talk is open to the public and free admission. Sam will be discussing the significance of the Roman coin finds discovered at the site by […]

The Discovery of the Site…

Local Metal Detectors Dennis and Jim describe the moment they discovered the site…

“Dennis and I have been detecting since 1995 and we both prefer to go together, but on this occasion during late October 2007, I was on my own and at a loss for somewhere to go. Normally stubble fields […]

Student Ben prepares for a section drawing…

This image shows student Ben preparing the excavation area for a section drawing. This is one of the most important tasks for recording the stratigraphy and locations of features, structures and finds at the site during excavations.

Just keep digging!

” We are still trying to find the bottom of this trench! There are lots of loose shillet with very small fragments of charcoal. Hopefully we will make sense of this by the end of the season,” explained students Alison and Gill.

Student describes challenges in archaeological investigations…

“We started to dig what we thought was two post holes but they turned out to be natural geology. They would have followed the curved pattern for the round house (?), but instead I excavated another post hole which suggests a squarer feature,” explained student Molly Barkes.

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Local volunteers discover a large piece of slag…

Local volunteers, Judy Dewhirst and Barry Quick, found the largest piece of slag (metal working byproduct) on site today. It is unclear if it’s related to large circular enclosure.

New Find- a tiny flint scatter…

The team has discovered several pieces of flint on site so far. This image shows a tiny flint scatter discovered today placed along a 10cm ruler.

Inside Nick’s trench…

Today student Nick discovered several features from within his trench.

Inside Will’s trench…

Masters student Will worked hard today digging into the depths of his trench hoping to find some interesting structures/features.