{"id":587,"date":"2014-08-01T14:58:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T13:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/?p=587"},"modified":"2014-08-01T17:52:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T16:52:13","slug":"the-newcastle-digging-team-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2014\/08\/01\/the-newcastle-digging-team-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"The Newcastle Digging Team 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing as it has come to the end of our excavations it seems appropriate to report what have been highlights for our student digging team.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96510663@N05\/14616455067\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3872\/14616455067_a51c046e4c.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0244\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lucy<br \/>\nGraduate<br \/>\n&#8220;I enjoyed the responsibility of being a supervisor over the last 3weeks the close connection between the uni digging team and SSARG members. I also really living with the numerous cats on the camp site&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>James SA<br \/>\n1st Year<br \/>\n&#8220;Working as part of a great team, deepening my archaeological knowledge and eating outdoors for 3 weeks&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Chris<br \/>\n1st year<br \/>\n&#8220;I enjoyed shovelling, local ale particularly at The Masons Arms. Another highlight was the sumo wrestling with Janes SA at the pub.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hayley<br \/>\n1st Year<br \/>\n&#8220;It was nice to have the opportunity to do other activities on site such as taking levels. I really enjoyed being part of a small team as well&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Jessie<br \/>\n1st Year<br \/>\n&#8220;It was nice to break up the digging by going on trips to places like Lullworth Cove. I also enjoyed seeing the archaeological process from beginning to end. It was lovely to see some kittens at the cattery on our campsite&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Flora<br \/>\n1st Year<br \/>\n&#8220;I loved meeting some of the local characters. It was a good experience learning to dig and plan features&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Elliot<br \/>\n1st Year<br \/>\n&#8220;I enjoyed the challenged of excavating a complex archaeological site and of course winning the open mic night at The Mason&#8217;s arms in Lower Odcombe&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Kimberley<br \/>\n1st Year<br \/>\n&#8220;I thought the entire dig was a really good experience and it was great to be part of a really friendly team&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Ollie<br \/>\n2nd year<br \/>\n&#8220;I really enjoyed working on this site with a fantastic bunch of people and keeping people up to date with what we are doing on site via the blog&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing as it has come to the end of our excavations it seems appropriate to report what have been highlights for our student digging team. Lucy Graduate &#8220;I enjoyed the responsibility of being a supervisor over the last 3weeks the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2014\/08\/01\/the-newcastle-digging-team-2014\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excavations-2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","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\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}