Category Archives: Progress Update

Our final day on site at Binbrook today. Time to finalize our records of what we have found and draw plans of the trenches, though there are still one or two parts of Trench C to explore a bit further. … Continue reading →

Our time is nearly up, as our chance to study the site at Binbrook draws to a close … at least for this season. We are now into the two last days to investigate and record. More here about Trench … Continue reading →

Stop press! We have reached the bottom of 2020, which lies at around 2.3m below the field’s surface. We have now finished excavation work on Feature 2020. This massive pit was as large as Lloyd predicted it would be on … Continue reading →

Last few days of the dig and it has all been busy at trenches B and C. Here we update what has been happening at Trench C. As soon as we had removed the topsoil at Trench C and cleaned … Continue reading →

While we are focused this season on exploring our Roman period site near Binbrook the valley we are working in contains a wealth of evidence for earlier use and occupation. Along from our site is the long barrow known as … Continue reading →

We have continued the work at Trench B. We have exposed and excavated more of the ditch where Ashwini had recovered many oyster shells last week. We have moved on from labelling our huge feature as “the big geophysical anomaly”, … Continue reading →

The area in which we are working has been little explored archaeologically, which is the main reason why our research and training project is being undertaken. There are sufficient traces to suggest that the Wolds have seen intense human activity … Continue reading →

We have been working on the finds and studying the building materials used, as the excavation progresses. Antonia writes: “Today Danielle and I were tasked with the opportunity to wash and clean some of the finds from the two trenches … Continue reading →

At Trench C Jonathan has been busy with the feature we thought, following the trowelling clean of the top of the archaeological remains, was likely to be a Roman corn-dryer (see earlier posting, Day 5). His careful excavation work on … Continue reading →

Update on the excavation of the ‘major anomaly’ … One of our main aims on the excavation this year at the Binbrook site is to examine the large “anomaly” feature that showed on the geophysical survey of last summer. So … Continue reading →