Having been in the classroom for the last 6 months it was quite tough getting back into the physicality of fieldwork once again, but once the blisters have healed and the muscles have warmed up it all feels good again. It rained heavily for periods during last week which made the archaeology hard to distinguish but once you do a bit of cleaning back it becomes a bit clearer and the features can be excavated in sequence. So far I have been excavating a series of Medieval and Roman pits around about the large gravel quarry pit in the centre of the open area. A few beers after work on Friday was a good chance to get to know a few of the people I hadn’t worked with before and unwind a bit; the sunshine this week has made it all the better.

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Burial (2120) Context (2104) Context (2034) Burial (2106) Ruth & Will sampling deposit (2137) Tomas & Anies at work on their chalk-lined burial The Prescot Street site looking East East end of Zone 4 East along Prescot Street towards the BT Radianz building The construction is well under way in what was our Zone 1 Tiny machines and giant props The North West corner of the old Zone 1 - it's VERY deep! Across Zone 4 facing West Zone 4, looking South West Looking directly West across site Planning Zone 4 Across Zone 4 looking North East Context (2044) Taking samples Context (2000) Context (2029) - a truncated inhumation Context [2008] Liz Liz excavating a cremation burial Soak-away face Lukasz planning Liz recording a post-medieval pit Anies, sensitive artist, archaeologist and videographer. Fergal waits, shovel ready Paula and her cremation burial. Liz grinning with joy at her most interesting discovery at Prescot Street so far Gary; findsman, archaeologist, outdoor survival expert Liz looking rather too pleased with herself Tom, Greg, a big steam rolling type machine Greg and Tom digging out another soak-away Tom and Greg just can't get enough good soak-away action Anies bursts with joy at supervising the Prescot diggers