Set-Up Week.
In blistering sunshine your supervisory team laboured to set up the marquee, manoeuvre an impossibly large cooking range through a small doorway, oversee the digger operation and a million and one other things that must be done to get the site ready for the season.
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Week 1.
TRENCH 10 . After the usual clean back on the area, the features were marked out and a pre-excavation plan drawn. As might have been expected, the run of hot sunny weather ended quite soon after the season started and this operation was hampered by heavy rain.
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Week 2
Week 2 started with heavy overnight rain and, unfortunately, the weather continued with heavy showers for the full week. This did not, however, prevent some excellent work on both Trench 10 and Trench 11.
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Week 3
The site was a hive of activity this week, despite the mixed weather. Week long courses included BERT and ‘Studying Bones’, which looked at both human and animal bones. The courses were well attended and all students, young and old, had only good things to say about the content and tuition. Many indicated that they would be returning in 2010!
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Week 4
The week started with great excitement as it was Open Day on Sunday with many visitors on site. Luckily the weather stayed dry, if overcast, for the day. There were stalls and activities, demonstrations and talks and lots of events directed at the youngsters on site. Thanks go to everyone who took part, which is everyone on site, but particularly thanks go to Pauline for organizing this event for us once again.
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Week 5
Work on Trench 10 has continued to focus on the problematic Anglo-Saxon ditch system, but additional excitement came in the form of the discovery of human remains in the south-west corner of the trench. This was unexpected because the known boundary of the Boneyard cemetery lies to the north and this spot is well inside the settlement area.
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Week 6
Firstly, SHARPies send their congratulations to Phil and Lindsey, who got engaged this week! They are planning a January wedding in Barbados (the suggestion of SHARP 2010 seems to have been quickly forgotten).
Up on Trench 10 we have been manically finishing excavating and recording all week. There have been two really interesting areas, which have taken up a lot of time. Firstly, work has continued on the crouched burial and secondly, a further burial was discovered, but this time a non-human example.
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