Our second event in September was an invitation by Context One Heritage and Archaeology to take part in their excavation of a prehistoric site at Middlezoy.

Context One had already been excavating at the site for several weeks and had uncovered a Middle Bronze Age enclosure along with other archaeological features.  The MAYANS were put to work excavating the enclosure ditch to uncover more dating evidence.

At the same time as the excavation, some of the MAYA helpers carried out a small geophysical survey in the field adjoining the site to see if we could locate the rest of the enclosure ditch plus any signs of where the people who used the enclosure had been living.

Although finds were sparse as can be the case on prehistoric sites, we discovered several small struck flints, including a lovely little scraper, plus some charcoal and tiny pottery fragments.

While the geophysical survey results were being processed, the MAYANS carried out a small fieldwalk and recovered a variety of artefacts from a wide range of time periods.  After this we all gathered around the laptop to see what the geophysics had discovered.  The rest of the enclosure ditch showed up really clearly, along with a very obvious circular anomaly which could only be the round house we’d been hoping to discover!

A big thank you to Context One for inviting us along for this exciting day of discovery!