On August 2nd Nick Snashall wrote: We’re digging a site first discovered by Alexander Keiller in 1934 when he was excavating the West Kennet Avenue. (more details) It was day off on the dig today but that doesn’t mean all work stops. Step forward Dr Mike Allen (Allen Environmental Archaeology) and Professor Charly French (Cambridge University). Mike is our guru on all things relating to chalkland soils and land snails and Charly is the expert on using micromorphological techniques to interpret buried landscapes (or our super-guru as Mike describes him.)
Charly and Mike are also rather fond of our periglacial stripes in Trench 2. These chalk stripes, which formed when areas further north were glaciated, are really well preserved. In fact Charly and Mike have rarely seen their like before on the chalk. What does this mean? Well for a start it means that the area we’re looking at hasn’t been deep-ploughed for centuries.
More here, with photos of the periglacial stripes
http://ntarchaeostonehengeaveburywhs.wordpress.com/tag/periglacial-stripes/
This summer’s fieldwork on the Between the Monuments Project is at an end. But that’s not the end of the story. Over the coming months we’ll be analysing the results of our Avebury Dig and going back to Alexander Keiller’s records and finds (in the archive of Avebury Museum) to try to make sense of what we’ve found. The project as a whole runs until 2019.
More at
https://web.archive.org/web/20131023012403/https://ntarchaeostonehengeaveburywhs.wordpress.com/2013/08/09/avebury-dig-and-now-what/ (archive link)
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