Tag Archives: Finds

1/10/14 — Finds Spotlight: Brooch & Bone!

From our collection come another two unique finds from our site near Hatcliffe, discovered over the course of this project. The whalebone, though not unprecedented, was an unexpected and rather unusual find and probably represents the opportunistic use of a … Continue reading

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25/9/14 — Finds Spotlight: Quern stone!

Earlier in the week, one of our undergraduate team uncovered a find that nicely adds to the different categories of finds so far on the dig – a piece of a quern-stone from the Roman period. What is a quern-stone, … Continue reading

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23/9/14 — Gone are the trowels, out come the pencils

Work has continued as expected at the Hatcliffe site with more feature excavations under way. From these features have emerged a steady flow of finds including sherds of pottery, fragments of bone and a cluster of oyster shells.  The oysters … Continue reading

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22/9/14 — Features, Finds and Triangulation

Work on the site has been steadily progressing with a number of significant finds having been discovered. The team has maintained progress at the Hatcliffe site with individuals continuing to excavate a number of new features to help further our … Continue reading

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17/9/14 — Digging begins at Hatcliffe

A change of scenery brought with it a change in pace. Our team of experts and undergraduates were brought to a more familiar site in Lincolnshire, near Hatcliffe, which has seen more diverse fieldwork techniques done on it than our … Continue reading

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15/9/14 — Artefact Facts

“Rim!” “Greyware!” “Boxflue!” Those are the calls of our undergraduate team across the site as we search for surface finds. But how can we judge what they are just by sight without dating methods? Of course, part of it comes … Continue reading

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14/09/14 — Getting stuck in!

Hello, weekend, and hello, digging! After having pieced together our impressive geophys results, including the magnetometry done later on part of the site to complement our fieldwalking, we were granted permission to open a trench in that part of the … Continue reading

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12/9/14 — Goodbye, geophys – hello, digging!

The end of the first week heralds the final touches to our main site’s geophysical survey. Friday saw Lloyd with the Total station and magnetometer following the fieldwalkers down to the foot of the hill, to chase the features being … Continue reading

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