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18 September - day 13

19/9/2013

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 A beautiful, good-to-be-alive day saw 20 diggers at Barbers Point busy with the full range of archaeological activities, from the minute detail of  grave plans and brushing tiny particles of sand out from between individual  vertebrae, to heavy breaking open of new sub-soil areas. The atmosphere is now  dominated by the end date, and the urgent need to complete every task, including  exploring new features that are still emerging. It was delightful to see Derek Andrews making his way carefully right to the far end of the site. No outside visitors today, so no time  off for impromptu lectures, but we may be getting  BBC Look East tomorrow.
 
The ‘mead hall’ post holes are disappearing in a welter of clay, but the team in that area working with the swing sieve was rewarded with the find of  a beautiful small bronze brooch – it’s Roman, and might it be small enough perhaps to be a child’s? The area where it was found is where all the school children dug and sieved last week – now we know how near to a fabulous discovery  they all were.
 
The ‘treasure box’ so painstakingly lifted by Val & Anna from the feet of a skeleton had one last remarkable surprise – a flat piece of heavily  rusted iron with a stud sticking through the middle showed unmistakeable impressions of fabric on the underside (see below). Could this have been traces of the  shroud that the body was wrapped in? Apparently we shall eventually get expert  opinion on this from a top analyst in  York.


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