{"id":312,"date":"2013-07-24T20:37:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T19:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/?p=312"},"modified":"2013-07-24T20:38:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T19:38:47","slug":"week-2-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2013\/07\/24\/week-2-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 2 &#8211; Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a day!<\/p>\n<p>Trench B produced its first substantial dating evidence in Cubby and Dave&#8217;s ditch to the north-west. The guys uncovered a number of Roman Grey Ware sherds in a concentrated area of their feature and are currently trying to determine if they come from their ditch or a feature cut in to the ditch. Johanna drew the longest section to date &#8211; stretching the whole 15m of trench B. Meanwhile, El furthered her quest to find meaning in ash-filled charcoally pits, to no avail.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"P1040514 by luftonarchproject, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96510663@N05\/9358045301\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3799\/9358045301_c0250d10a2.jpg\" alt=\"P1040514\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary from SSARG recording a ditch \u00a9 The Lufton Project<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Pete discovered that the gully that he was excavating was earlier than the southern ditch whilst Mary and Peter worked with Andy digging in the western end of trench B.<\/p>\n<p>Cubby and Pete also had a go at sieving clay which is almost as \u00a0much fun as sieving clay with finds in!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"P1040526 by luftonarchproject, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96510663@N05\/9357937229\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7302\/9357937229_16896bda28.jpg\" alt=\"P1040526\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cubby sieving some clay \u00a9 The Lufton Project<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Over in trench C, the team tried to get started on some new features but were defeated by the baked clay and spent the day recording yesterday&#8217;s archaeology and drawing a section across the southern ditch which had been excavated earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Lucy and James finished excavating their ditch in the northern end of trench C and removed large pots (at least 2 vessels) and found one of them to be perforated like yesterday&#8217;s finds, reinforcing the assumption that there might have been cheese or beer production in the settlement.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"IMG_0747 by luftonarchproject, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96510663@N05\/9357905407\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3831\/9357905407_d1e486ab53.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0747\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lucy and James&#039; Iron Age pot \u00a9 The Lufton Project<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a day! Trench B produced its first substantial dating evidence in Cubby and Dave&#8217;s ditch to the north-west. The guys uncovered a number of Roman Grey Ware sherds in a concentrated area of their feature and are currently trying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2013\/07\/24\/week-2-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-312","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\/312","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=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}