{"id":250,"date":"2013-07-17T21:38:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T20:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/?p=250"},"modified":"2013-07-17T21:38:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T20:38:51","slug":"wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2013\/07\/17\/wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, our JCB driver arrived with his toothless bucket and stripped both trenches revealing loads of interesting archaeology, including last year&#8217;s Iron Age enclosure ditch. The team took turns machine-watching and marking out features in the clay before it dried out and they disappeared.\u00a0Trench C (40m x 2m) unveiled an unexpected number of features which surprised James, our site director.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"P1040394 by luftonarchproject, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96510663@N05\/9310384544\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7418\/9310384544_0509ef5380.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cleaning up the sections of trench C \u00a9 The Lufton Project<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Lucy and Dave spent the afternoon with Andy setting out the site grid whilst Danni, Johanna, Mary and Dave then spent some time cleaning up the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Archaeological_section\" target=\"_blank\">archaeological limits<\/a>\u00a0of excavation in trench C and the rest of the team started trowelling back trench B (15m x 15m).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"P1040417 by luftonarchproject, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96510663@N05\/9310374764\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3679\/9310374764_365aa76df9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lucy and Andy setting out the site grid \u00a9 The Lufton Project<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"P1040416 by luftonarchproject, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96510663@N05\/9307584953\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3684\/9307584953_878e691b79.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The team excavating trench B \u00a9 The Lufton Project<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cubby found the base of an late Iron Age vessel, and a bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/potsherd.net\/atlas\/Ware\/BB1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Black Burnished Ware <\/a>was discovered on the spoil heap.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 385px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"P1040425 by luftonarchproject, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96510663@N05\/9310364414\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7402\/9310364414_83d9ab2956.jpg\" alt=\"Cubby\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cubby and his Iron Age vessel \u00a9 The Lufton Project<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, our JCB driver arrived with his toothless bucket and stripped both trenches revealing loads of interesting archaeology, including last year&#8217;s Iron Age enclosure ditch. The team took turns machine-watching and marking out features in the clay before it dried &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2013\/07\/17\/wednesday\/\">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":[22,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excavations-2013","category-finds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","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=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}