Tintagel Castle - Archaeological Dig - Day 4

Day 4 and the adventure continues at Tintagel Castle.

Today started with site tour, a brief study of the other additional ruins on the island served as a comparison to the evidence emerging in the trench and help with the interpretation of what we are seeing, buildings wise.

More pottery fragments coming out of the trench today, and heading off to be cleaned. 

 

Ryan gets ready to measure the position of today’s finds so far.

Here is a wide view of our 'Trench Mark' on Tintagels Castles Southern Terrace. We are still cleaning through the layers, exposing collapsed wall which once recorded and plotted, we can lift to search for the buried floor surface below.

Archaeology on the edge!

 My last find for today, a burnt flint stone pebble, the inside has turned white. 

Tintagel Castle - Archaeological Dig - Day 3

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.