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Resistivity Survey at Ovingdean More
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Resistivity |
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Resistivity
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Lunch Break |
Wall |
Trench |
Pottery |
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Well
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Lunch |
Packing Up |
Pottery |
Metal Detection |
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Digging |
Digging |
Digging |
Digging |
Planning
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2003 Season |
2003 Season |
Medieval Walls 2003 |
2003 Season |
Medieval Walls 2003 Season
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Articulated Sheep 2003 Season |
Corner of possible Manor House 2003 Season |
An interperatation of 13th Century Ovingdean |
Roof tiles in the demolition layer April 06 |
A good first day turn out April 06 |
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A photo of Norman taking a photo of John taking a photo of the trench
April 06 |
A Busy Trench! May/June 06 |
A detached kitchen foundation trench May/June 06 |
Deja vu at Ovingdean May/June 06 |
Medieval Pottery May/June 06 |
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Digging May/June 06 |
A foundation trench appearing! May/June 06 |
Tower Rubble May/June 06 |
Vestiges of a Boundary Wall May/June 06 |
The Features Beginning to Appear April/May 2008 |
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Opening the Kitchen Trench April/May 2008 |
Floor Tile and Cooking Pot in the Ditch April/May 2008 |
Opening the Manor Trench April/May 2008 |
The Walls and Cobbled Floor of the Manor House April/May 2008 |
Corner of the Manor House April/May 2008 |
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The New Building and Ditch April/May 2008 |
Ditches and Post Poles Appearing April/May 2008 |
A visit by the YAC April/May 2008 |
Field Walking Feb 2009 |
The south west corner showing a hole cut for stone robbing July 2009 |
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Metal Staining in the east wall July 2009 |
Carved chalk blocks July 2009 |
Lots of tile beneath the turf July 2009 |
Looking for those house walls July 2009 |
Inside the north west corner with tile and mortar adhering July 2009 |
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The north east corner being revealed July 2009 |
The South west corner coming into view July 2009 |
The BHAS transport and rain shield July 2009 |
Some nice medieval pottery July 2009 |
Several walls on top of each other July 2009 |
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Part of the beach pebble floor July 2009 |
The early days Sept 2009
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Visit by the Young Archaeologist Club Sept 2009 |
Another busy day Sept 2009 |
Bones and Building Rubble Sept 2009 |
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South West Corner of Building Sept 2009 |
Inside the North East Corner with tile and morter adherting Sept 2009 |
Medevial Pottery Sept 2009
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Cellar Floor appearing Sept 2009
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Lots of animal bones in the cellar Sept 2009
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North East Corner of Building Sept 2009 |
South West Corner Sept 2009 |
Walls coming into view Sept 2009 |
Walls on top of walls Sept 2009 |
Those walls getting thicker Sept 2009 |
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North East Corner Sept 2009 |
Fieldwalking at Ovingdean Feb 2010
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Removing that lovely soft top soil April 2014
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Setting out the fencing April 2014
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Will we find the dovecote April 2014
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Ovingdean Church April 2014 |
A large crowd for the first day April 2014 |
Deturfing those first trenches April 2014 |
Features beginning to appear April 2014 |
Setting out the trenches May 2014 |
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Starting on the second trench May 2014 |
A busy site at times May 2014 |
A nice alignment of large post holes, whatever is it May 2014 |
A nice collection of daub in the ditch bottom May 2014 |
Finding those edges May 2014 |
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Will we find the dovecote May 2014
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Looking for the ditch May 2014 |
Pits ditches and post holes May 2014 |
Post holes appearing May 2014 |
Post holes galore May 2014 |
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A complete horse skull in trench C June 2014 |
A group of students from Wyoming USA June 2014 |
A nice stratigraphy June 2014 |
Post holes and ditches appearing in trench B2 June 2014 |
Post holes with post pipe June 2014 |
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Collection flints,that proved not to be the dove-cote June 2014 |
Its getting more interesting with each day June 2014 |
Ditch - PH - ditch - ditch - PH -PH - PH June 2014 |
The large ditch in trench B2 June 2014
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A very curious feature June 2014
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A ditch filled with daub June 2014 |
A pretty impressive ditch section June 2014 |
A multitude of layers and features July/Aug 2014 |
A drop of overnight rain really shows up the features July/Aug 2014 |
A ditch within a bank July/Aug 2014 |
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Now that looks like a fine edge July/Aug 2014 |
Work in the north trench July/Aug 2014 |
Chasing post holes at the north end July/Aug 2014 |
Another post hole July/Aug 2014 |
Yet another post hole July/Aug 2014 |
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Quite a lot going on today July/Aug 2014 |
Working around the flint floor Sept/Oct 2014 |
Trench K, quite a depth of soil
over the features Sept/Oct 2014 |
Recording the large pit beneath
the bank and more post hole Sept/Oct 2014
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Possible medieval cart tracks
and a new ditch Sept/Oct 2014 |
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Finding those flint edges and
post holes in trench D Sept/Oct 2014 |
Plenty off medieval pot below those stones Sept/Oct 2014
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More layers than a great British bake off sponge cake Sept/Oct 2014 |
Mark has found yet
another odd feature Sept/Oct 2014 |
Lots of subtle features in
even more subtle layers Sept/Oct 2014 |
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A lot of activity in trench 'J' Sept/Oct 2014 |
Looking for more post holes
in Trench 'J' Sept/Oct 2014 |
Layers upon layers of flints trench D Sept/Oct 2014 |
A section through the earth work showing the large chalk block
Sept/Oct 2014 |
The buried land surace at Ovingdean under the bank December 2014 |
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Another pit and part of the floors in the large trench December 2014 |
Working in removing the upper fill sin trench 'J' December 2014 |
Removing the other half of the pit December 2014 |
Judith with her gaming piece December 2014 |
More stake holes being uncovered December 2014 |
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Post hole paddock on the last digging day December 2014 |
Getting all that last recording done December 2014 |
The Saxon gaming piece December 2014 |
Trenches b1 and b2 at height December 2014 |
David Staveley with his magnetometer December 2014 |
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And now for the resistivity December 2014 |
Some of the team opening up the trench April 2015 |
Good to back in the field again April 2015 |
One of the first finds April 2015 |
Removing those upper layers April 2015 |
