{"id":828,"date":"2016-08-05T20:56:24","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T19:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/?p=828"},"modified":"2016-08-05T20:56:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T19:56:24","slug":"cleaning-dirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2016\/08\/05\/cleaning-dirt\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning Dirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today on site the team were tasked with the huge task of cleaning up around 2\/3 of the trench so that we could see what features and contexts were visible and so that we could photograph them before excavation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96510663@N05\/28788454975\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/8806\/28788454975_da65431fd7.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>.Imogen and Hayley identify a robber cut for a robbed out wall (above)<\/p>\n<p>At the start of the day, Antonia, Imogen, James I, Henry, Kevin and Charlie (Charlotte) were led by Hayley and Elliot in trowelling back through the trench, starting in the South-Eastern corner of the trench, and working in line with the building\u2019s walls.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96510663@N05\/28711040051\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/8645\/28711040051_8a4ac2c589.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>James watching the team trowelling (above)<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Holly-Ann finished off chasing her wall further to the west of the trowel line.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, however, we were joined on site today by Sue from the South Somerset Archaeological Research Group (SSARG) and Hollie, a sixth-form student who wants to study archaeology after her A-levels.<\/p>\n<p>Before long, Ski also arrived on site and located many targets with his metal detector. Where we could excavate these they were almost all iron nails.<\/p>\n<p>Elliot then bagged up Ski\u2019s finds before recording them in the Register, so that Andy could take their GPS location.<\/p>\n<p>After this, James oversaw the whole group\u2019s mammoth task of cleaning up a huge portion of the trench, ready for Andy to take some photos (below).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96510663@N05\/28788446985\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/8492\/28788446985_9662e43c33.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a hard day\u2019s work, the team returned home to a delicious meal of Chilli, prepared by Dan and Chris.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, this was a slow day with a huge amount of work undertaken by the whole team. With this necessary exercise complete we&#8217;ll be able to get on with digging the building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today on site the team were tasked with the huge task of cleaning up around 2\/3 of the trench so that we could see what features and contexts were visible and so that we could photograph them before excavation. .Imogen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2016\/08\/05\/cleaning-dirt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excavations-2016","category-the-villa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","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\/5120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}