Today is the first of a two-day Time-Team dig in our village of Toft. With a £10,000 Heritage Lottery grant, and the help of expert archaeologists from the University of Cambridge, we are carrying out a dig around the village. Toft already has some exciting discoveries, including mysterious Roman graves near the Brook. The archaeologists are excited by rare features such as the ridge and furrow field in Home Meadow. As a result, the Heritage Lottery Fund picked us from among hundreds of contenders around the country to have the chance to discover our story.
It was very hot in our corner of a field down the High Street. We went down in 10cm layers after taking off the turfs. The first three layers produced several finds of ceramics, glass, an old nail and some clay pipe stems. These were recorded in situ and then taken to base at the Church where we washed and dried them.Unfortunately the fourth layer was totally unproductive so we are wondering whther it is worth going deeper. See tomorrow's exciting episode..................................
It was very hot in our corner of a field down the High Street. We went down in 10cm layers after taking off the turfs. The first three layers produced several finds of ceramics, glass, an old nail and some clay pipe stems. These were recorded in situ and then taken to base at the Church where we washed and dried them.Unfortunately the fourth layer was totally unproductive so we are wondering whther it is worth going deeper. See tomorrow's exciting episode..................................
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