Friday 20^th September

Day 5

Sadly Day 4 was cancelled due to weather (wet)

Today the forecast was much better. Sunshine promised and so twelve intrepid folk arrived for a good days work. 

It was great to have such a range of people of different ages and experience all working hard together and enjoying themselves. 

Lauren and Lucy setting up the grid  (c)  photo by Jane Lunnon 

Little Paul’s weather forecast was not entirely accurate but the sun did appear mid afternoon. 

Keep going, lads! (c) photo by Jane Lunnon 

Today we worked in field 2 and we made excellent progress laying out ever more 20 metre squares to submit to the geophysics machine, negotiating tricky wall angles and the slopes of the field. 

Is the tape straight? (c) photo Jane Lunnon

There were hiccups: one square had to be repeated due to a “deletion” malfunction. There was even time and manpower to lay out more squares in field 3 in preparation for more shoulder breaking geophysics tomorrow.

David & Alison analysing dry stone wall structures (c) photo by Jane Lunnon 

Meanwhile Alison and David were having a recce for interesting wall and features, lumps and bumps, in the surrounding fields.

Ann Thake