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 th...

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...

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 ...

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 t...

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 - ...

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

We often find pieces of Romano-British window glass at our Colemore dig site - always fragments and never large pieces. Indeed I underst...

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 happeni...

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

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 m...

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...

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 earl...

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 si...

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...

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 equipm...

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 exca...

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 fo...

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 ...

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 Fa...