Day 3 at Tintagel Castle Archaeological Dig with Cornwall
Archaeology Unit and English Heritage.
After a brief foggy start to the day, we
were soon bathed once again in bright cornish sunshine as we continued our dig on the
headland.
Soon, we were back in the trench (I’m digging in Trench D – also known as Trench Mark). It wasn’t long until I found my first piece of B1 pottery!
As the day went on, we discovered a few other finds, which are
logged, tagged, measured, recorded, and are cleaned and analysed by our onsite
expert.
As we progress through the soil layers we are also sieving,
using a variety of different size sieve meshes, we whittle down our trench
soil, keeping an eye open for any additional finds, before the soil is bagged
and tagged, well bucketed and sealed, ready for being wet sieved another day.
Here we are measuring the find positions, whist
we enjoy the afternoon sunshine.
Once those are logged we can then continue through the
layers to investigate the wall, or revetment, we are uncovering.
