Bloomery Blog Saturday 7th July 2012

Bloomery Blogger Reports

I popped over to the excavation on Saturday morning to see how things were going.  The Pendle countryside was very pretty in the sunshine and the area of the dig was like a little Garden of Eden; with green fields, a babbling brook, swallows skimming overhead, lambs, rabbits and hens. The Old House cottage garden was also suitably in flower.

People were appropriately relaxed and just beginning to lay things out, having abandoned the task on Friday because of the rain.  Trevor, the farmer, had mowed the grass and they found the datum points from last year. They laid out the grid nice and accurately while I threw sticks to the farm collie, Bonnie and stroked the cat, Tyger.  Bonnie will happily return sticks for an eternity.

The there was deep discussion with the overlaid plans from the past two excavations, as people made up their minds what the strategy would be.  Eventually, three 2m squares were laid out on three different un-excavated parts of the site.  If only we had a digger like on Time Team someone said as they got out the spades and I quietly slipped away...