In my last post I explained how archaeologists start to interpret and phase sites after the excavation is complete. Today I'm going to continue on with the timeline of our 2015/2016 excavations by showing our Phase 2 features. We have already been introduced to this image in my Phase 1 (Middle Iron Age) explanation. In that I explained that the large ditch running along the top of the image is 2nd century BC, and there is a pond to the left of the image which contains a varie

Since the excavation finished in August 2016 there has been a flurry of activity behind the scenes as we make sense of the information collected from this season of excavation. Our lovely volunteers from FRAG have been washing and sorting the vast amount of finds we collected, and at the office we have begun to create a timeline of events. In this blog post I am going to take you through how we create our timeline and split our site into phases of activity. I'm sure that as y