We were then told to work our way down in layers, removing the infill – scraping, checking, putting the spoil in buckets and tipping the spoil way up on the heaps at the sides. None of this is important to today’s blog – except to say Archaeology is always turning up evidence that turns the ‘perceived’ way of the history around. Readings taken – and some mathematical jiggery-pokery – and they could pinpoint the height above sea level of the top of my section of the digging. until the, potentially, Roman remains would be found. By the time I attended – they knew they were working on what was an iron-age site. sheet numbers and anything else that would mean they could link together Pink marks indicate Roman sites. Wednesday.

at that!’. A Roman cargo ship, or ‘corbita’ (image: naval-encyclopedia.com). All these were cross-referenced by the section number and the But I had essentially finished, the hole was scraped down to the dug-out bedrock from side to side, and vertically at each end of my section. This was done using a theodolite which had already been zeroed on a peg set in at the edge of the site.

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The whole process was then repeated for the other side of I longed to investigate it … but our time was almost at an end. As well as the possible mine, they also discovered a Roman road, which would have served regular military traffic in and out of the fort. We were then set to create a ‘relationship trench’ which would show any relationship between the two, or three, features.

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