Lufton excavators graduate in 2014 © Newcastle University

Congratulations to Fraser, Georgia, Lucy, Danni, Johanna and Ellie (who couldn’t make it for this picture). They have all their survived fieldwork at Lufton and gone on to graduate from their degrees.

The Project would like to wish them all the best for the future (especially Lucy who will be rejoining the team for this season’s excavations!)

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.