Monthly Archives: August 2012

Eventful days

The past few days have been very hectic as we enter the final week of the excavation! The site is a hive of activity and the core team have stopped taking their day off so that the paperwork can be … Continue reading

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More digging, more finds

What progress we’re making! The depth of the wall trenches on the building is being revealed, and more finds are being made. Some of the planks that would have made up the walls of the hall are coming up really … Continue reading

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Our Open Day Extravaganza!

Saturday dawned bright and beautiful as we all crawled out of our tents at the crack of dawn to start putting up the bunting for our very first open day. It was a scorcher – the hottest day this year, … Continue reading

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A family affair

We’re all madly preparing for the first ever Lyminge Archaeological Project Open Day this Saturday, but the excavations are continuing as ever which means plenty to tell you all about in this post. The number of local people who have … Continue reading

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Open Day

This Saturday, 18th August 2012 we are holding an Open Day. Join us for flint knapping demonstrations, children’s ‘little dig’ experiences, finds talks, site tours, Anglo-Saxon re-enactors and craft demonstrations as well as lots more children’s activities and the chance … Continue reading

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Beautiful weather, beautiful finds

Things are going rather well here with gorgeous sunny days that are hot and tiring to work in but certainly cheer everyone up after the dull and oppressive days we’ve had recently. It is nice not to have to prise … Continue reading

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Find of the day!

A short post to show you what came up in the sunken-featured building today, found by Ben and excavated by Cordelia, Ben and myself. I’ll do a longer post very soon, but we wanted you to see this beautiful bone … Continue reading

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Planks in the wall trench

What a very exciting few days we’ve had! We’ve been looking carefully for the presence of post holes in the wall trench of the hall that we opened last week. A similar hall building at Cowdery’s Down, Hampshire, had two … Continue reading

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A Saxon Hall and a sunken-featured building

It’s the end of week two and we’ve made great progress. One of the most exciting elements to the excavation is the fact that we have now discovered possibly the largest Anglo-Saxon hall building in Kent, on a par with … Continue reading

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Planning, leveling, floating, flints and finds

We began the week by planning in the features that were revealed as we cleaned back. Gabor and Roo took charge of this. We produce a pre-excavation multi-feature plan that records everything that we can see at this early stage, … Continue reading

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