David 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 the first few days of ...

Well, 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, the standard of ba...

Today 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 is an overview of ou...

The 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 tents appeared to be ...

The 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 - so soon after the en...

I have long been curious about some features on Peter Page's original low-resolution geophys plot (resistivity) just to the north of where we put our tents a...

We often find pieces of Romano-British window glass at our Colemore dig site - always fragments and never large pieces. Indeed I understand that no complete...

It 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 happening since my last pos...

This morning I arrived on site to discover all the sheep had gone - Philip and Emma, the tenant farmers, had moved them yesterday, although the lambs are sti...

There 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 member who has recent...

There 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 from work because w...

That 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 early this morning and m...

I apologise for not updating this blog more frequently during the Colemore autumn dig but it has been an unusually busy time for me on site and at home, jugg...

What 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 very bright and clo...

Set-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 equipment into Mark's van,...

This 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 excavations tomorrow, an...

A 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 fountain there to a wa...

Once 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 taking part on the f...

I 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 Facebook group's page ...