A Chapel? And photography

Katie describes the robber trench:

Today was the start of our final week on site and once again the sun was out making some of us uncomfortable and even mildly disorientated on my part.

Last week and today giant strides were made on what was thought to be a cellar, but is now thought to be a robber trench. Robber trench for what you may ask? Now this is where it gets very exciting.

 

Dan and Uncle Simon believe that this trench was used to rob out a very substantial wall structure, which looks to have had buttresses on the outer wall. This is exciting as it could indicate that this wall belonged to a medieval chapel, the location of which has been lost for centuries.

The majority of today was spent cleaning areas of the site in order to take photographic records of features. Although we still record all the features with plan and section drawings to record accurate levels and measurements, we take the photographs so that we can look at the archaeology after it has been destroyed and refer to them in cases of doubt in the initial paper records.

(l-r) Sam, Emma and Katie define the floor of the possible medieval chapel.