Today was another hot sunny day and the digging continued. We had several visits from the Access Cambridge Archaeology team again today to give us a few tips on the dig and to see what we had found. Corenza Lewis (C4's 'Time Team') paid us a visit...
... and Alex Pryor (Cambridge University) .....
... and Paul Blinkhorn (C4's 'Time Team' C5's 'Pub Dig'). They were all so knowledgeable and friendly. Having someone on hand to tell us exactly what we had unearthed was great.
This is 'Slipware' but I don't remember the age of it. 17th century maybe?
The grey pottery in this photo is 12th-14th century (Medieval) Hertfordshire Greyware and the tiny piece of green pottery was (I think) of a similar age.
The digging and sieving and washing and sorting and recording continued until about 3.30pm when we reached 60cm. We hit really heavy clay which made digging extremely hard and ran out of time to do any more. We gathered up all the finds, made our last notes in the record book and handed all we had found over to the team from Cambridge. The pottery will all be re-examined and dated and we hope to have a complete pottery report in the coming week. Then, in a few months time the team will provide a full report of the whole weekends activities and a summary of what it revealed about the village.
Although hard work, we thoroughly enjoyed the weekend and it has certainly renewed my interest in social history.
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