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The area of focus of CM917
This post is just to explain what we are focusing on during this CM917 autumn dig. The above image is taken from our geographical...
David Quick
Sep 23, 20172 min read


Colemore dig CM917 Day 1- some photos
Here are some photos taken by Arthur Mills on the first day of our autumn dig at our regular Colemore site:
David Quick
Sep 23, 20171 min read


CM917 - Set-up Day
After yesterday's heavy rain, today's weather could hardly be a greater contrast. The sun was out and there was a drying wind. Some of...
David Quick
Sep 22, 20172 min read
The autumn dig at Colemore
It is that time of year again where I dust off my wellies, pack the car with equipment and head off down the narrow country lanes to our...
David Quick
Sep 21, 20171 min read


Stroud Big Dig days 8 & 9
The last two days of the Big Dig were the best of the three weeks. In the final location where we were working at the end we came across...
David Quick
Jul 30, 20171 min read


Stroud Big Dig Day 7 - some results at last!
To be honest last weekend was a bit depressing, partly because the weather was so wet and horrible, and partly because we found so little....
David Quick
Jul 28, 20173 min read


Stroud Big Dig - Day 6, and more rain
Yesterday we had finished at SBF but had left our tools under cover there when we were caught in the cloudburst and had to finish early. ...
David Quick
Jul 23, 20172 min read


Stroud Big Dig day 5 - rain stopped play
The day started well after a night of pouring rain and when I arrived at New Buildings Farm I saw that the harvest had been started in...
David Quick
Jul 22, 20173 min read


Drone imagery of today's site
The drone imagery of today's site has just finished processing and can be seen below. These pictures are made up from 146 separate...
David Quick
Jul 21, 20171 min read


Day 4 - Stroud 'Big Dig' 2017
Today was the start of the second 3-day session of this year's dig at Stroud, and there was a reasonable turnout of members to take part...
David Quick
Jul 21, 20174 min read


Day 3 of the Stroud 'Big Dig' 2017
I was twitching a bit last night at the thought that we had a lot of people expected at Stroud today and I did not know for sure that...
David Quick
Jul 16, 20173 min read


Day 2 of the Stroud Big Dig 2017
Today was a day of mixed fortunes really. There were only 7 of us on site and I was really grateful to those who turned up, two of whom...
David Quick
Jul 15, 20173 min read


Day 1 - Stroud 'Big Dig' 2017
I know; the name 'Big Dig' is a bit of a misnomer at the moment because this first weekend in Stroud is all about geophysics. And it...
David Quick
Jul 14, 20173 min read


A lovely thankyou card
The children from Selbourne CE Primary School who visited our Colemore dig recently have sent us this lovely thankyou card, with...
David Quick
Jun 15, 20171 min read


What do you do for Liss Archaeology?
Having just taken over from Dave Butcher as Chairman, I was really struck by something this weekend. As you know, nobody in Liss...
David Quick
May 21, 20172 min read


CM517 - sunshine and barbecue
What a delight it was this morning, arriving on site in brilliant sunshine after yesterday's miserable weather. As I was filling up the...
David Quick
May 20, 20172 min read


CM517 - thunder & lightning
It all started off quite well; the weather was quite sunny, the finds were almost all up to date, Carl kindly reminded me that I had left...
David Quick
May 19, 20173 min read


CM517 Day 17 - rain stopped play
Although it was quite bright when we arrived on site this morning, we knew the forecast was fairly dire. There was not too much water in...
David Quick
May 17, 20172 min read


CM517 - a hectic couple of days
I think David Pink is off sick at the moment so yesterday and today have been enjoyably busy. Yesterday we had two school visits - one...
David Quick
May 13, 20173 min read


CM 517 Day 12 - Showers and Sparsholt
I wasn't supposed to be on site today but called by after lunch with some updated membership lists and drone photos of the trench for...
David Quick
May 11, 20172 min read
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