In the western end of trench A Jess, Pete and James cleaned up to prove that it contained no archaeology.

However in the eastern side of Trench A, James and the digger driver carried on machining to uncover an interesting linear stone feature of unknown date and function – it could be a drain or a wall.

In trench B Andy and James continued to open the trench to discover it was full of archaeological features. These seem to fit the geophysics. Finds so far include medieval pottery and a stone hone.

We came home to a delightful tea of fajitas and potato salad from locally grown potatoes.

Today we spent our first full day on site. This started by setting up the site office (including some improvised carpentry to support our finds table) and laying out Trench B.

Today’s major event however was the opening of trench A. This gave the team the chance to watch a digger take up top soil and look for archaeological features in the clay – archaeological machine watching.

After trench A was opened a section was cut and cleaned up to show different stratigraphic layers; After lunch, trench B was opened as well.

Hayley found a few sherds of medieval pottery which was encouraging and gives us a bit of hope as to possible medieval remains.

We returned back to base camp after a trip to the supermarket and around Yeovil, to a delicious bolognese made by Kimberley and Bill.

Having traveled from the north-east, the midlands and south-east, we have finally arrived at camp, Maggie and Collin’s garden.

Part of the team managed to set up base (including a rather dubious camp shower) and gathered our first lot of provisions from Yeovil.

Another part of our team spent today collecting tools from our friends at South Somerset Archaeological Research Group (SSARG) and setting up a site grid as well as laying out trenches for tomorrow.

Just walking over the surface of the site we found some medieval pottery sherds and a key.

Tonight we are having a BBQ.