Today was our first full day at Fairfield, and we began by excavating Trench 1. One team was levelling out one end of the trench, another troweled along the line of the wall, whilst the other picaxed the layers in the robber trench. We only succeeded in finding a few bits of bone and pot. After lunch, we went round to the side of Fairfield House, into one of the orchards, and examined the walls. We were looking for any noticeable features and changes in the walls history, such as archways or collapses. Most of the team went back to the trench whilst some washed finds and two finished surveying the wall. Whilst digging in the afternoon, we found a strip of bent metal. We then returned to Kilve and had a talk by Vanessa Fells on scientific techniques used in archaeology.
The Kilve team
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