We couldn't have asked for better weather! After a very, very wet Friday we woke today to a hot, sunny day for the start of our weekend of digging funded by a Heritage Lottery 'All Our Stories' Grant and overseen by Access Cambridge Archaeology.
These photos probably aren't in the exact order they were taken but hopefully they give a flavour of our day.
The pit had to be excavated in 10cm increments (contexts) and each context had to be cleaned and recorded before starting the next.
Anything we found had to be washed and kept in trays for later identification.
This perfectly round object although not archaeology was of interest. It is a hollow geological object which formed naturally. We found two more later.
We also found lots of bone....
... and of course lots of pottery.
All of this came from just one context and among all the pottery is a piece which the archaeologist identified as a piece of 17th century German pottery from a drinking vessel.
By the end of today we had dig down 30cm.
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