We’re now 10 days from the start of this season’s excavation. Yesterday Andy and James met to discuss final preparations and trench locations. We have a plan, although whether it will survive first contact with the archaeology or not is another matter!

In other news Ollie was added to the blog today as an ‘author’. Ollie is a second year student (soon to be a third year) studying Single Honours Archaeology and will be responsible for updating the blog during the excavation. We hope the updates will be daily (more or less) and they’ll be a good way for you to keep up to date with out progress.

Ollie also has previous experience of archaeological blogging. Last year he dug on one of our other projects at Derwentcote and wrote a few interesting posts.