Fresh from the Trench: Bone Plaque The new trench by the Victorian postern gate has already proven fruitful for interesting, if a bit modern bits and bobs, in 5E.  Our students have been making great progress working through the top…

#Medieval bone plaque, fresh from the trench!

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“Pythagoras? Oh yeah, we know him!” Today, the trench team learned how to set up a grid system for recording the trench. In many commercial archaeology projects today, this process is usually abandoned in favour of fancy GPS equipmen…

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Spread of bones and snail shells in light greyish brown soil.

Spread of bones and snail shells in light greyish brown soil now divided into quadrants by an orange string.

We've got a probable #midden (historical rubbish pile) in the south of the new trench, so we have decided to break it into quarters to investigate. In the second picture, you can see we have created four quadrants and begun to excavate.