{"id":897,"date":"2022-05-19T21:52:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T20:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/?p=897"},"modified":"2022-05-20T08:57:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T07:57:43","slug":"osgodby-dig-week-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/2022\/05\/19\/osgodby-dig-week-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Osgodby Dig &#8211; Week 6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/Test-Pit-5-Spit-B.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-898\" width=\"287\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/Test-Pit-5-Spit-B.jpg 574w, https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/Test-Pit-5-Spit-B-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a week\u2019s break, the team were back to help residents with test pits.&nbsp; 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 fun was had by all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Teams of two or three volunteers were sent out to various locations around Osgodby to start test pits, whilst those digging their own pits were given instructions and equipment to help them.&nbsp; Test pit diggers were all made very welcome by their various hosts, who provided grateful volunteers with refreshments to keep them going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three 1mx1m test pits were started on Tuesday and another three on Wednesday. Everyone tried to get back to base for lunch to chat about their finds, but those further out of the village took advantage of the good weather to picnic on their hosts\u2019 lawns.\u00a0 Keith, Linda and Jan also had to deal with a canine \u2018glove fiend\u2019 whilst working on their assigned test pit.\u00a0 The mischievous mutt, who shall remain anonymous, took a liking to any digging gloves which were taken off and put down.\u00a0 There was no safe hiding place, with gloves being taken out of buckets and bags, the ensuing chases around the garden to retrieve gloves were a great game for the pilfering pooch, who eventually relinquished his swag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Thursday, the team focused on washing and sorting the various finds, recording test pit contexts and back-filling the majority of test pits, although a couple of the pits were left open at the request of the garden owners.&nbsp; It appears a test pit can be very useful if you want a water feature or hole for planting a tree. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the team had finished recording all the original trenches in the paddock, the farmer kindly used his JCB to backfill them, saving the team a lot of time and hard spade work, which was most appreciated.&nbsp; Brian E. and Jan valiantly volunteered to returf Trench 3, leaving Trenches 1 and 2  to be returfed.&nbsp; Still plenty work to keep the team occupied with more test pits planned for next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a week\u2019s break, the team were back to help residents with test pits.&nbsp; 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}