Early History of the English Channel Project
Fieldwork at Holton Lee
24 July - 11 August 2000

WEEK ONE    24 - 28 July 2000

The start of work at Holton Lee saw two sites opened - Site One (The Enclosure) and Site Three (The Littoral).  The weather held fair to gorgeous until Friday when things got a little wet....

Site One

The trench at Site One (looking north 
west from the interior of the enclosure)

Emma Graham trowelling through the 
ditch fills at Site One


Mike Green continuing with those ditch fills

Section showing Emma and Mike's work 
(note the 'step' style of the original ditch cut)


 

Site Three


Nigel Bryant making the first cut of Test Pit 
One on the slope of the hill facing the littoral

Vicky Rowe starting off 
the Russian corer

A Common Lizard - one of our site visitors

Other visitors to the site this week included Claire Pinder and Gordon Le Pard (Dorset SMR), Keith Jarvis (Poole Museums), Bill and Maureen Putnam (esteemed archaeologists), Capt Gerry Wareham (Poole Maritime Trust), and Prof Tim Darvill, Louise Pearson, Paul Cheetham, Jeff Chartrand, Bronwen and Miles Russell, and Damian Evans (Bournemouth University).

More pictures and information will follow next week ...


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Comments and enquires should be addressed to Eileen Wilkes
Early History of the English Channel Project
School of Conservation Sciences, Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus, Poole, Dorset, BH12 5BB, UK


This page has been compiled and is maintained by Eileen Wilkes, School of Conservation Sciences, Bournemouth University.  Last updated 12 Aug 2000
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