STR821 - It begins again! Site move day, 12 August
Many of you will know that we have been doing an annual exploration in this village in Hampshire since 2016. We were originally invited...
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David Quick
- Jun 11, 2021
- 5 min
Our new survey kit
One of the things that I have been impressed by with our group is the way we have kept up with new technology and used it to help us with...
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David Quick
- Mar 5, 2021
- 2 min
Life after lockdown
It has been a very frustrating year for the Committee and members of Liss Archaeology. Despite this we were able to continue a limited...
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carolh
- Sep 29, 2019
- 1 min
Colemore update
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...
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David Quick
- Aug 15, 2019
- 3 min
Stroud Day 5 - and it is getting interesting
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?...
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David Quick
- Aug 11, 2019
- 1 min
Stroud Day 2: Different cameras
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...
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David Quick
- Aug 10, 2019
- 4 min
Day 1 at Stroud - Windy with lots of brick
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...
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David Quick
- Aug 9, 2019
- 6 min
The start of the Stroud Big Dig 2019
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 -...
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David Quick
- May 26, 2019
- 2 min
Geophys - planning for Colemore in the autumn
I have long been curious about some features on Peter Page's original low-resolution geophys plot (resistivity) just to the north of...
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David Quick
- May 7, 2019
- 3 min
Roman window glass
We often find pieces of Romano-British window glass at our Colemore dig site - always fragments and never large pieces. Indeed I...
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David Quick
- May 6, 2019
- 6 min
Colemore after the Bank Holiday
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...
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David Quick
- Apr 29, 2019
- 2 min
CM519, Day 3
This morning I arrived on site to discover all the sheep had gone - Philip and Emma, the tenant farmers, had moved them yesterday,...
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David Quick
- Apr 27, 2019
- 3 min
CM519 - Day 1
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...
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David Quick
- Apr 26, 2019
- 5 min
CM519 - Setup day
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...
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David Quick
- Apr 25, 2019
- 3 min
Colemore 2019 Spring Dig - Grid Setup Day
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...
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David Quick
- Oct 10, 2018
- 6 min
Colemore with a few days to go
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...
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David Quick
- Sep 24, 2018
- 4 min
Colemore Dig (CM918) Day 3
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...
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David Quick
- Sep 23, 2018
- 4 min
CM918 Setup Day and Day 1
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...
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David Quick
- Sep 20, 2018
- 2 min
The start of CM918 - the Colemore autumn dig
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...
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David Quick
- Sep 5, 2018
- 1 min
3D archaeology
Earlier this year I contacted a lovely company in Italy called 3DFlow that has developed some very impressive software called 3DF Zephyr....
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