A Step in the Right Direction It didn’t take us long to decide where to start with our proper excavations now we have the whole area stripped of most of the overburden. In one corner of the building, two curious stones had been exposed poking through the soil and rubble of the building. Slowly digging…
25th April. A Step in the Right Direction? All photographs by Andrea Roberts except where otherwise stated.
Bring in the Bobcat! It feels as if we have just made a huge leap forward with the dig. We knew that we had a large quantity of overburden to shift so we could get down to the interesting stuff. For more than 100 years, the old quarry has become overgrown, soil and chalk has…
19th April – Did we really move 30 tons?!? All photographs by Laura Brown.
In a few days’ time, on Sunday 19th April, we will be clearing overburden from the interior of the pumphouse. To prepare for this a few hours’ of effort were needed to find out how deep we can go without disturbing any features connected to the well. One square metre of the area was carefully…