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At the western corner of the building, where we discovered a length of cast iron pipe earlier, we carefully removed some more soil and quickly exposed a very nice layer of roof tile fragments a few centimetres below the surface, representing the former ground level at the time of demolition. <\/p>\n\n\n\nLayer of broken roof tiles by the corner of the building. Photo: Peter Burgess<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nWe made a few interesting finds on this session. Two small broken fragments of cast iron are likely a piece of the guttering that ran along the north western side of the roof and a section of the rainwater downpipe. A small cylinder of wax with a fine hole running through the centre had us a little puzzled, although it may just be a much degraded wax candle. Several lumps of unburnt coal came to light today to go with the various pieces of coke that keep turning up.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPart of the happy team. Photo: Andrea Roberts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nToday there was a smaller team working, but we achieved quite a bit and enjoyed the day. There is a little more work to do before we will be able to bring in a machine to dig out the central pit. We must find out as much as we can about the ground level remains before we dig deeper. Clues we discover now will help determine what to look for later and where to focus our efforts next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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A Brief Respite from the Rain The dry spring we have enjoyed so far is now behind us and it was touch and go whether we would go ahead or cancel Sunday’s session. Throughout the week the predicted weather for Sunday looked poor, but by Friday things started to look brighter both metaphorically and literally….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wealdencaving.org.uk\/website2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wealdencaving.org.uk\/website2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wealdencaving.org.uk\/website2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wealdencaving.org.uk\/website2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wealdencaving.org.uk\/website2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13995"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/wealdencaving.org.uk\/website2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14053,"href":"https:\/\/wealdencaving.org.uk\/website2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13995\/revisions\/14053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wealdencaving.org.uk\/website2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wealdencaving.org.uk\/website2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wealdencaving.org.uk\/website2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wealdencaving.org.uk\/website2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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