Another day of
glorious Yorkshire weather today!
The wall of rain and
mist gradually did clear and our friends from Africa
brought the sunshine with them and it did stay; only temporarily disappearing
behind the occasional cloud.
The tarpaulins did come in useful though to cover
the trenches that were slowly turning into swimming pools
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| Photo by John Asher |
Today we backfilled
three trenches, photographed and recorded what was left. Now only trenches 6
and 7 are being actively worked upon - we are doing some ‘serious trowelling’,
which puts into question what we were doing before.
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| Trench 2, Farmstead 2 - Photo by John Asher |
The camaraderie and enduring
optimism, plus the addition of excellent and very welcoming ginger cake, really
made the rain and the wind seem quite irrelevant today. The archaeology and the
madness of all the different people digging defies the weather. But having said
that, naturally we have backed out of digging tomorrow and become cowards as
the weather forecast doesn’t look at all good.
So hopefully back to
the remaining trenches on Thursday!
Jennifer Stearn
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