Today on site the team were tasked with the huge task of cleaning up around 2/3 of the trench so that we could see what features and contexts were visible and so that we could photograph them before excavation.

.Imogen and Hayley identify a robber cut for a robbed out wall (above)

At the start of the day, Antonia, Imogen, James I, Henry, Kevin and Charlie (Charlotte) were led by Hayley and Elliot in trowelling back through the trench, starting in the South-Eastern corner of the trench, and working in line with the building’s walls.

James watching the team trowelling (above)

Meanwhile, Holly-Ann finished off chasing her wall further to the west of the trowel line.

Luckily, however, we were joined on site today by Sue from the South Somerset Archaeological Research Group (SSARG) and Hollie, a sixth-form student who wants to study archaeology after her A-levels.

Before long, Ski also arrived on site and located many targets with his metal detector. Where we could excavate these they were almost all iron nails.

Elliot then bagged up Ski’s finds before recording them in the Register, so that Andy could take their GPS location.

After this, James oversaw the whole group’s mammoth task of cleaning up a huge portion of the trench, ready for Andy to take some photos (below).

After a hard day’s work, the team returned home to a delicious meal of Chilli, prepared by Dan and Chris.

Overall, this was a slow day with a huge amount of work undertaken by the whole team. With this necessary exercise complete we’ll be able to get on with digging the building.