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King Arthur's Hall excavation including Activitiy Days, 16/17th September 2022 by Andy B on Tuesday, 26 July 2022

I'm excited to share the dates for the long-awaited excavation of selected areas of King Arthur's Hall, Bodmin Moor. Currently we don't know if it is actually a prehistoric site so this is a really important moment.

The organiser is Natalie Haly, Monumental Improvement Project Manager, Cornwall AONB along with the Timeseekers local archaeology group. They hope to include OSL (optical) dating which as at Waun Mawn and other sites gives a good chance to get a date from the covered soil even without dateable organic material

Here are the dates for the planned excavation

15 September – Excavation commences with trench digging and test pit set up
16 September – Educational activity day for students and adult education groups
17 September – Family focused activity day
24 September – Specialist Sampling
25 September – backfilling and end of excavation ends

There will be volunteers from TimeSeekers helping out and I should think there are still openings for more volunteers via http://www.cornwallaonb.org.uk.

Something is not right. This message is just to keep things from messing up down the road