{"id":110,"date":"2013-05-04T16:34:01","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T15:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/?p=110"},"modified":"2013-05-27T19:35:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T18:35:08","slug":"excavations-2012-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2013\/05\/04\/excavations-2012-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Excavations 2012 Week 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend we talked to lots of visitors at the open day. Then on Sunday our prayers were answered. The heavens opened and it rained.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"Wet Trench by luftonarchproject, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96510663@N05\/8855086817\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5338\/8855086817_855ab21609.jpg\" alt=\"Wet Trench\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">James surveying a wet trench \u00a9 The Lufton Project<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some water in the soil meant that we could see the archaeology and that the digging was a bit easier.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"Excavating 2012 by luftonarchproject, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96510663@N05\/8855692622\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8544\/8855692622_27cabe9846.jpg\" alt=\"Excavating 2012\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ring-ditch is revealed as we begin to define and excavate features \u00a9 The Lufton Project<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We worked hard to define and begin to excavate the features. We were rewarded with some tiny pieces of Early to Middle Bronze Age pottery from the ring ditch and some Iron Age pottery from the big ditch.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"Kristjan and Fraser by luftonarchproject, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96510663@N05\/8855727696\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3729\/8855727696_0354835fa3.jpg\" alt=\"Kristjan and Fraser\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristjan and Fraser working hard \u00a9 The Lufton Project<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We made good progress in Week 2. The water bowser that seemed so important to have in the dryness of Week 1 was a bit redundant&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We went into Week 3 feeling pretty happy with what we&#8217;d <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2013\/05\/04\/excavations-2012-week-3\/\">discovered<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend we talked to lots of visitors at the open day. Then on Sunday our prayers were answered. The heavens opened and it rained. &nbsp; Some water in the soil meant that we could see the archaeology and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2013\/05\/04\/excavations-2012-week-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excavations-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}