Hello everyone,
it’s Zane who’s giving an update on Castle Craig today. It was great to get
back up to the broch again after being away for two days (Mondays are our days
off and yesterday was my turn to do a walkover survey).
A short step
aside here: although there are many aspects and tricks to learn of excavation
itself, we do and learn more than digging and recording here. Alongside the
excavations as such, SERF is a credited fieldwork for students, so we also
learn, for example, how to do topographic and standing building survey, data
entry and processing into the database; we have fieldtrips and lectures on
various aspects of archaeology. Tonight’s lecture was on conservation of
different materials, for instance. Thanks to all the organizers and teachers!
Back to Castle
Craig now. It was a really productive day today, and I saw a lot of smiley
faces, despite the wind and Scottish mist which were really loyal companions of
ours, not leaving us unattended even for a moment. Alex in the Trench Eight was
our star today. She was the first one to get into her trench in the morning and
two seconds later her excitement draw all of us around (most of us hadn’t even
managed to set up for the work at that point!). Similar episodes repeated
themselves over and over again all day long, adding to our small finds list a
sherd of decorated Samian pottery, an animal bone fragment and a tooth, a
wooden bowl-shape object with brass studs and others.
Meanwhile,
quite a lot of photographs were taken, a plan and a section drawn (hinting that
we have, at places, got quite deep down) – a rather slow, but at times tricky and
very crucial recording work which has to be done in order to go farther and be
able to reconstruct the trenches later on. Trench Eight is the only one where
we still have not revealed the inner edge of the broch’s wall. Maybe tomorrow?
Also, we had
some visitors at the Castle Craig today, including members from the Historic
Scotland. As I said – a productive day! Let’s keep it up!
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