Our archaeology weekend continued on Sunday 2nd June with a visit to the Quantock Hills to take part in an excavation near Cothelstone.  The dig was being run by the Quantock Hills Landscape Partnership (QHLP) and Dig Ventures who were investigating some features which had shown up as crop marks on aerial photographs and geophysical surveying.

There were two sessions during the day so some MAYANS attended in the morning and the others in the afternoon.  The QHLP had very kindly organised a minibus to take us to and from the site.

We were met by Anna and Ben from Dig Ventures who gave us a tour around the site and showed us some of the artefacts they had found.  We were then given the opportunity to do some digging of our own in two trenches which had been located over two of the geophysical survey anomalies.  The archaeologists were not sure what these features were so it was our job to help them find out!

Unfortunately, apart from some charcoal we didn’t uncover very much but this is quite often the case with prehistoric sites and the team from Dig Ventures said we had done really well.

It is always great to get the chance to take part in an actual excavation so a big thank you to Dig Venture and the QHLP for giving us this opportunity.