{"id":235,"date":"2013-07-16T18:53:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T17:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/?p=235"},"modified":"2013-07-16T18:53:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T17:53:50","slug":"the-digging-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2013\/07\/16\/the-digging-starts\/","title":{"rendered":"The digging starts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James and Andy started by setting out the trenches on site (trenches B and C) after discovering that the alignment of the site grid wasn&#8217;t quite the same as last year\u2019s. The rest of the team then started de-turfing trench C (40m x 2m) before the \u2018big yellow trowel\u2019 arrived to speed up the process.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"P1040384 by luftonarchproject, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96510663@N05\/9302674308\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2873\/9302674308_ba5b3b13d4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Machine watching with James in trench B  \u00a9 The Lufton Project<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Unfortunately the digger turned up with a toothed bucket which meant quite a lot of tidying up for the gang- but a chance to get stuck in with their trowels!<\/p>\n<p>The team were also given a run-through of levelling and recording and are now ready to get in to the swing of things despite the heat!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 385px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"P1040366 by luftonarchproject, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96510663@N05\/9299902583\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3752\/9299902583_b0d6a263df.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The team hard at work \u00a9 The Lufton Project<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James and Andy started by setting out the trenches on site (trenches B and C) after discovering that the alignment of the site grid wasn&#8217;t quite the same as last year\u2019s. The rest of the team then started de-turfing trench &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2013\/07\/16\/the-digging-starts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excavations-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","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\/517"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}