Author: janm

The final week of the dig and the team were hoping for good things.  Phil and Jan went to start Test Pit 10, while Mark and Brian had still to finish backfilling Test Pit 9, then they could start Test

The penultimate week of the Osgodby Dig began with the whole team spending half an hour putting the turf back onto Trench 1, a reminder that the dig is coming to an end .  Two more test pits were then

After a week’s break, the team were back to help residents with test pits.  A number of villagers had come forward to either dig a pit themselves or to have members of the team dig one for them and great

The week started with a final push to fill in Trench 4, to the satisfaction of the garden owner. A hungry robin flitted around the team whilst they worked waiting for them to finish so he could get into the

Tuesday started with everyone helping to shovel the soil, dug out last week, back into Trench 4. This trench hadn’t revealed much in relation to the medieval village, with only 1 piece of medieval pottery found and still no evidence

There were a few jobs to do this week, including finishing recording of trench 2, washing finds from last week and of course, opening another trench.  There were enough willing volunteers to undertake all the tasks and the weather was