carolhSep 29, 20191 minColemore updateDavid is busy doing his grandfatherly duties so I have been let loose on the blog. This is a very quick round up what happened during th...
David QuickAug 15, 20193 minStroud Day 5 - and it is getting interestingWell, it has been a few days since the last blog post and the digging is getting very interesting. However, what has been going on? Well...
David QuickAug 11, 20191 minStroud Day 2: Different camerasToday I am just posting two video clips of activity on site. The first is a time-lapse video of work in Trench A: The second video clip ...
David QuickAug 10, 20194 minDay 1 at Stroud - Windy with lots of brickThe official first dig day of STR819 today and it was with a sigh of relief that I drove up the Farm's driveway and saw that all of our t...
David QuickAug 9, 20196 minThe start of the Stroud Big Dig 2019The last three days have been hectic for some of us, getting everything ready for this year's big dig at Stroud - our fourth year here - ...
David QuickMay 26, 20192 minGeophys - planning for Colemore in the autumnI have long been curious about some features on Peter Page's original low-resolution geophys plot (resistivity) just to the north of wher...
David QuickMay 7, 20193 minRoman window glassWe often find pieces of Romano-British window glass at our Colemore dig site - always fragments and never large pieces. Indeed I underst...
David QuickMay 6, 20196 minColemore after the Bank HolidayIt is the evening of Bank Holiday Monday and we are now a week and a half into the spring dig (CM519) at Colemore. What has been happeni...
David QuickApr 29, 20192 minCM519, Day 3This morning I arrived on site to discover all the sheep had gone - Philip and Emma, the tenant farmers, had moved them yesterday, althou...
David QuickApr 27, 20193 minCM519 - Day 1There is only one word to describe the first day of this Spring Dig at Colemore: Blustery! I arrived on site at 0830 to meet Tom, a new m...
David QuickApr 26, 20195 minCM519 - Setup dayThere was quite a crowd of us at our equipment store in West Liss at 0830 this morning. Thankfully Rob had managed to borrow a large van...
David QuickApr 25, 20193 minColemore 2019 Spring Dig - Grid Setup DayThat will teach me to read the joining instructions for this dig which we are calling CM519 (i.e. Colemore May 2019). I got up very earl...
David QuickOct 10, 20186 minColemore with a few days to goI apologise for not updating this blog more frequently during the Colemore autumn dig but it has been an unusually busy time for me on si...
David QuickSep 24, 20184 minColemore Dig (CM918) Day 3What a difference in the weather! After all the rain and wind over the weekend I arrived at Colemore at 08.20 on a distinctly chilly but...
David QuickSep 23, 20184 minCM918 Setup Day and Day 1Set-up Day Friday 21st was our setup day, so a small group of us started off at our store at West Liss at 9.00am ready to load the equipm...
David QuickSep 20, 20182 minThe start of CM918 - the Colemore autumn digThis afternoon a hardy group of half a dozen of us turned up at Colemore at lunchtime to survey and set up the grid for the start of exca...
David QuickSep 5, 20181 min3D archaeologyEarlier this year I contacted a lovely company in Italy called 3DFlow that has developed some very impressive software called 3DF Zephyr....
David QuickAug 25, 20184 minExploring Alton's Public GardensA few weeks ago I was copied as an addressee on an email about some work that was being done in Alton's Public Gardens, to connect the fo...
David QuickAug 19, 20184 minStroud 2018 - the final dayOnce again the end of another dig, with lots to do today and not all that many people to do it. I'm always suspicious that people avoid ...
David QuickAug 19, 20183 minStroud (Day 8) and Alton Archaeology DayI cannot really say very much about Saturday at Stroud because I wasn't there so I have pinched some photos from other people from our Fa...