Things do seem to be getting clearer. We uncovered slight traces of a brick foundation running across the trench on or close to the line of one of the walls found in the 1997 excavation which was adjacent to the existing trench. The south end of the trench nearest Pound Street remains as enigmatic as before, a mix of dump and possible structures which are slow to disentangle. Work continues tomorrow.
We started excavating a layer which was slightly clayey and looked like it might be below the 19th and 20th century garden disturbance. And then we came across a what looked like a wall foundation in one corner of the trench. It was in the right sort of position to be the original front wall of the house we are looking for. Further excavation produced promising looking deposits and then at the end of the day some 19th or 20th century stuff turned up. I think we are still in deposits disturbed by recent gardening. Proceedings continue tomorrow.
The weather forecast suggested it was going be wet much of the day. The sky threatened but in the end it didn’t happen. We did some excavation and sorted out quite a lot of finds but another day without dramatic developments. Hopefully things will be more interesting tomorrow.
The rain in the morning left the trench too wet to dig so nothing has been done apart from a small amount of work on the finds.
We were supposed to have a gardening session, but the rain meant that was very limited. The drought seems to be causing some of the trees to shed leaves particularly the huge plane in Festival Walk. The garden was littered with them as if it was early autumn and some of these have now been cleared. |
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