THURSDAY 10th October 2013 

Here is the daily report on the weather in Arncliffe - sorry wrong blog. 

Actually if the record of the archaeological activities has little value in the future the detailed account of the weather in this small area of the Dale has been well documented for posterity! Just for the record it was cold and sunny.

Alan prays for good weather!    (c) photo by Lynne Primmer  

Roll call for today: Ruth,Peter,Lynne,Hugh, Ann and Alan. 

The work continued under the cover of the tent continuing on from yesterday. Peter and Hugh working downwards at the top of the northern slope, Ruth and Lynne at the southern slope, and poor Anne exiled to the one of the outside tent and was heard to be muttering about having wished she'd put her thermals on!

Peter (why is it always Peter?) then uncovered a collection of large pieces of animal bone in a SECURE CONTEXT (hurrah) and Roger looked decidedly happy. Considerable time was taken on recovering and carefully wrapping this in foil as it should be ideal for dating.

Secure context   (c) photo by Ruth Spencer  

We had three visitors during the course of the day, two of which came when we were photo cleaning and were astonished at the sight of people cleaning stones with paint brushes and tea spoons.

Trench photo-cleaned and ready for its close-up   (c)  photo by Lynne Primmer  

Photographs of the trenches duly taken, backfilling commenced

Alan Williams.