Day 7 of the Galloway Picts Project. Arriving at a site and not knowing what to expect is one of the wonders of archaeology. Trusty’s Hill was no different revealing a serious amount of stonework. The sampling of the vitrified … Continue reading
Day 6 of the Galloway Picts Project. Work began in earnest on Charles Thomas’ Trench 2 today. It was previously speculated to be a guard hut. We dug through the backfill and found evidence of our predecessors in the form … Continue reading
Day 5 of the Galloway Picts Project. The hottest day yet. And one of the most exciting. Excavation of Trench 5 across the western rampart of the fort produced a pottery sherd, that looks like part of the rim of … Continue reading
Day 4 of the Galloway Picts Project – Perfect weather and great company. It has been hard work but most enjoyable. Finds today include part of an iron javelin head, another nail from the vitrified rampart, a possible brooch and … Continue reading
Another sunny day on Trusty’s Hill, it’s just like digging in the Algarve! It was quite a busy day on site with the folks in trench 4 exposing the vitrified rampart on the east side of the fort and those … Continue reading
Another wonderfully sunny day on site. Trench 5 is progressing nicely while trench 4 was expanded to the south. The spoil from both the trenches is being sieved and the finds recorded. We had our first piece of evidence for … Continue reading
After getting all our equipment up to site, we began work on the first two of our trenches. Having surveyed them in, the whole team pitched in with the deturfing of Trench 4, and teamwork was rewarded with the discovery … Continue reading
Our training day got underway this morning at the Mill of the Fleet, with 30 local participants attending. A lot of interest and fantastic questions from the group. From the reaction we had on the site tour in the afternoon, … Continue reading