Sunday, 15 November 2009
Sunday, 8 November 2009
Friday 6th November 
Alan up the scaffolding getting a photo of the site from above. 
Adele and Rose quantifying, marking and bagging the finds as the evening draws in. It was slightly less cold working in the garage!
Adele
The last day of our dig and we needed to clean up Trench 12 ready for photos, finish up any last other details, and do some more work on the finds. Today was a time to reflect on the week and be proud of what we had achieved in 1 short week on our last trench. 
Alan up the scaffolding getting a photo of the site from above. Adele and Rose quantifying, marking and bagging the finds as the evening draws in. It was slightly less cold working in the garage!Adele
Thursday 5th November
We also had a visit from all the children from Stogursey Primary School. They were digging in one of our other trenches. They all seemed to have a brilliant, muddy time and gained a new experience of excavation, working with finds and how to look at buildings.
Adele
With hardly any rain today saw more work on our newest trench and a better understanding of what had happened on the site, as we discovered a culvert running through the trench and through the tower, that was obviously built after the tower and wall had collapsed.
We also had a visit from all the children from Stogursey Primary School. They were digging in one of our other trenches. They all seemed to have a brilliant, muddy time and gained a new experience of excavation, working with finds and how to look at buildings.Adele
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Wednesday 4th November
With yet more rain today we were working very muddy trenches but still managed to get quite a bit done. We finished work in the Trench 1 from last week,
We also managed to work out what was happening in our trench 6, from the first week. We now know there were 3 phases of trackway and a small ditch before the small wall forming a little terrace.
Two of our volunteers continued with the photo survey of the walls around the estate.
adele
With yet more rain today we were working very muddy trenches but still managed to get quite a bit done. We finished work in the Trench 1 from last week,
and continued to uncover more of the wall and tower in Trench 12.
We also managed to work out what was happening in our trench 6, from the first week. We now know there were 3 phases of trackway and a small ditch before the small wall forming a little terrace.Two of our volunteers continued with the photo survey of the walls around the estate.adele
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
Tuesday 3rd November
With our volunteers we continued to clean back in our new trench (Trench 12) in the rain until it became to heavy to continue. We found what we first believed to be an earlier medieval building, but by the end of the day we now believe it to be part of the wall, and the tower is smaller than first imagined.
When it was too wet to dig we had a look at the types of finds we have found over the last 5 years, and did some pot washing, quantifying and marking.
Adele
With our volunteers we continued to clean back in our new trench (Trench 12) in the rain until it became to heavy to continue. We found what we first believed to be an earlier medieval building, but by the end of the day we now believe it to be part of the wall, and the tower is smaller than first imagined.
When it was too wet to dig we had a look at the types of finds we have found over the last 5 years, and did some pot washing, quantifying and marking.Adele
Monday, 2 November 2009
Sunday, 1 November 2009
Friday 30th October 
They joined us for tea break and Mick told us about the lateset Time Team plans.
The feature that we thought was the base of a large wall turned out to be a line of capping stones over a very substantial stone drain (culvert). This was proved when Alan finally managed to remove one of the stones. We now have to find out whether the drain was created along the line of an earlier feature, maybe even a ditch.
We took a final group photo of the fantastic Kilve Team before they went their separate ways. I is very quiet at Fairfield now they're gone, but it has been the best week of the entire project (so far!).
What a day! We had a visitation from Mick Aston, Bob roft, Suise Simmons, Dick Broomhead and the photographer from the West Somerset Free Press. Here they are with Lady Gass and Polly.
They joined us for tea break and Mick told us about the lateset Time Team plans.The feature that we thought was the base of a large wall turned out to be a line of capping stones over a very substantial stone drain (culvert). This was proved when Alan finally managed to remove one of the stones. We now have to find out whether the drain was created along the line of an earlier feature, maybe even a ditch.We decided to have a final go at finding the 'turret', and will be hiring the digger again to open up a further trench within the area surrounded by the metalled road surface.
We took a final group photo of the fantastic Kilve Team before they went their separate ways. I is very quiet at Fairfield now they're gone, but it has been the best week of the entire project (so far!).From Rachel.
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