The Dorstone Hill 2017 Dig Diary Blog is underway here
Day 9:
Work on excavating the ditch of the causewayed enclosure has now begun. There are several segments of ditch in the trench that have now been exposed. Sometimes these ditches were re-dug in the Neolithic, exactly why we don’t know, but there are as you might imagine many theories on this. By the end of the day the first few centimetres of ditch fill had been removed as the team were looking to find the edges.
Julian was really pleased to see several finds emerging so early in proceedings, including a nice piece of flint he found himself! What made this flint so noticeable was the signs of what archaeologists call ‘re-touch’ where someone has removed small flakes from one side, producing a sharp edge which could be used for cutting or scraping.
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