tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77987131861291230282024-02-19T09:10:16.881+00:00Chapel House Wood dig 2012The blog of Upper Wharfedale Heritage Group (UWHG) members' experience of this year's Dales Heritage Field School summer dig of the Romano-British site near Grassington, with Dr Roger Martlew of the Yorkshire Dales Landscape Research Trust.Upper Wharfedale Heritage Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07684634725974727043noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7798713186129123028.post-5515250341815618142012-07-21T21:05:00.002+01:002012-07-21T21:05:27.386+01:00Friday 20th July 2012<br />
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our depleted numbers could not permit adverse weather to hamper clearing and
restoring the area of operations so we began by loading the Land Rover with all
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that had protected much of the site – a delicate operation both with
disconnection of the main frames and a careful strategic retreat to safe ground
to disassemble the pieces.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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susceptibility scanning over the areas still remaining to be evaluated – this
activity covered the whole area of investigation within site DG, both
unexcavated and opened ground.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the attention of the resident rabbits – which have moved into our soil pile! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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packing away as much of the dry canvas as was possible – leaving only the Finds
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the springs gushed down the hillside at CHW. This, however, earned us a reprieve
from the morning site restoration session as it was deemed unsafe on the steep, slippery hillside.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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valley were far from encouraging. However, by lunchtime it had cleared with occasional
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employment of the magnetic susceptibility equipment went ahead, in addition to
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<span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pat and Phil are now up there as the Finds Team, and they will be updating us at the end of the week as to how things went on. We shall hear all about their adventures by the weekend.</span>Upper Wharfedale Heritage Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07684634725974727043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7798713186129123028.post-67305394708954947002012-07-15T19:44:00.005+01:002012-07-15T20:22:04.819+01:00Saturday 14th July 2012<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The half hour of backfilling seemed to drag this morning – and it wasn’t just me. Everyone kept looking at their watches and then glaring downhill looking to see if Roger was about to call time.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Roger spent quite some time teaching the students how to draw plans using triangulation, while one poor girl had the task of drawing her trench using the dreaded grid frame. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He’s been up the ladder taking photographs of one trench so far, and we are all working hard to finish the photo-cleaning of the others.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For some members of UWHG today was the first day of this year’s dig at Chapel House Wood. We arrived to find some volunteers had already been set to work the previous couple of days or so and already set up the tents, done some backfilling of the old DF trench, and had started work on the first of the new trenches. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A warm welcome by the way to the students who hail from various universities around the country, to Lisa V who has been working on the Stanbury Hill project, and to the ladies of the 3D Archaeological Society from Harrogate who have joined the dig this week.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We enjoyed a relaxing lunch break in the sunshine before getting down to removing the topsoil in the afternoon – a long, fiddly job because of the high density of stones.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the absence of any finds, and without Bob the total station being available this year, Our Finds Team for the next 3 days, Ann and Lynn, spent most of today trying to figure out all the fixed ref points using the tried and tested method with tape measure and theodolite, which they’ve nicknamed Lucy. </span><br />
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