{"id":674,"date":"2015-03-26T21:18:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T21:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/?p=674"},"modified":"2015-03-27T18:37:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T18:37:06","slug":"fifty-shades-of-clay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2015\/03\/26\/fifty-shades-of-clay\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifty Shades of Clay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After heavy showers last night we expected the site to be soaked through when we arrived, however there were only a couple of small puddles to be mopped up. We took to other duties whilst we waited for the site to dry out: finishing the grid co-ordinates, organising the paperwork and established a Temporary Bench Mark on site.<\/p>\n<p>We then took advantage of the moist conditions to trowel back a 20m x 5m section of the trench to reveal more features in the northern end of trench. There seems to be multiple features present in the changing colours of clay.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i>https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/ruw6rR<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/qRQNUy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/8746\/16316593904_a7db2abe8c.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1164\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A brief diversion mid-day was a close fly-past by a flight of Merlin helicopters from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalnavy.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/where-we-are\/air-stations\/rnas-yeovilton\" target=\"_blank\">RNAS Yeovilton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We then continued to excavate our features from yesterday. Chris and Hayley found pottery dating from the 4<sup>th<\/sup> century in their feature, whilst James H found pottery dating from the Late Iron Age to the Early Roman Period in his. The day finished with a team discussion regarding the sequence of our excavated features, it\u2019s complicated but we will not be beaten!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After heavy showers last night we expected the site to be soaked through when we arrived, however there were only a couple of small puddles to be mopped up. We took to other duties whilst we waited for the site &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2015\/03\/26\/fifty-shades-of-clay\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1324,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excavations-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","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\/1324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}