Dig 2011 Articles from July 2011
Final Day
Posted by Cathy - 09:45 on 26 July 2011 | 5 comments
Hi all,
Well thats it! Day 14 had us finishing of our final section drawings, laying down terram to protect the surfaces of the areas we want to reo...
Day 13 - Backfill minus one!
Posted by Cait - 20:02 on 23 July 2011 | 4 comments
Today has been all sampling, sectioning, drawing and delineating levels above ODN!!!
Yes, as we prepare to backfill our trenches, some very careful...
Day 12
Posted by Cait - 20:36 on 22 July 2011
Goodness, can you believe it, here we are already only two days to go of this the first ever ARCH Delve into the Past Dig, and the first ever known ex...
Day 11
Posted by Cathy - 18:04 on 21 July 2011 | 1 comment
Hi all,
Another productive day with the weather gods being kind to us!
Our test pit 3 on top of the mound has shown up an interesting fill o...
Day 10
Posted by Cait - 18:58 on 20 July 2011
Oh we have been lucky – another rainless and very active day on the mound and in the barley field as we spent most of the day preparing to, sett...
Day 9
Posted by Cathy - 19:14 on 19 July 2011
Hi all,
We were back at Foulis today for the final haul after calling off work on Sunday due to soggy trenches and another day off on Monday. ...
Day 7
Posted by Cathy - 17:26 on 16 July 2011 | 1 comment
Hi everyone,
Great to see so many people out at the open day today despite the threatened bad weather. Thankfully we got a good morning of work in u...
Day 6
Posted by Cathy - 19:09 on 15 July 2011
Hi all,
Another sunny day despite the forecast and we got straight to work on trench 1, energised after our day off. The top of the mound (Area C) ha...
Day 5
Posted by Cait - 22:42 on 13 July 2011
Yes, Day 5 already!
More sun, sun, sun today, which has ensured that both of our trenches have had a good old dry-out and we have been a...
Day 4
Posted by Cathy - 18:33 on 12 July 2011 | 1 comment
Day 4 has been a great day...not least because it was our first day without any rain! A quick tour of the newly opened trench 2 and a practice context...
Day 3 - Foulis Mound and Early Roadway Excavation
Posted by Cait - 21:33 on 11 July 2011 | 1 comment
Oh dear, another night and morning of rain in Easter Ross! However, this didn’t quite stop us in our rather muddy tracks… Anyone involv...
Day 2 - Foulis Mound Excavation
Posted by Cait - 18:15 on 10 July 2011
Hello from a soggy, but happy, day two of excavations at Foulis Mound.
Whilst the terrain was much less squelchy underfoot this morning than we had l...
First Day at Foulis
Posted by Cathy - 20:36 on 09 July 2011
Hi everyone, welcome to the Foulis Excavation Blog for 2011!
Today the first participants in the ARCH dig at Foulis were out on site opening Trench 1...
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