For the past few weeks I have been looking at the mass of free software and data available on the internet and using the gps on my phone for surveying. One of the many things I wanted to achieve, was to plot features onto Google Earth and then view them form the air.

Trench 14 is continuing to suprise us, with more rock-art and other suprises, so time for an update

We have had two weeks working in a field in Holt. We had a field walking session with Holt Historical Society and put in some test pits

So far, three diaries have been submitted with more to follow. Attached are the diaries of the actual Malta trip from Derek, beverly and David. Please read, enjoy and feel free to comment. A presentation will be made at the AGM.

Trench 14 finds have been inspected, sorted, dated and recorded. I have decided to do an update based on my thoughts as a digger who has spent a lot of time in the trench and looking at the finds. This is what UI think so far. Feel free to comment, disagree or whatever.

Last week, volunteers from Caer Alyn played the part of an iron-age family for an educational dvd for a schools information pack on the iron-age. Whilst waiting for the film crew to arrive, Phil Cox (our own "director" tcarried out his own photo shoot!

On Saturday May 1st, Julie Edwards, Cheshire Archaeology, visited Caer Alyn to have a look at the finds from trench 14 and to help the volunteers identify the finds. The visit was a great success from our point of view and is documented in the attachment.

A Tribute to Mrs Robinson. I owe my passion for history to Mrs Robinson, a great history teacher at my secondary school. Mrs Robinson, apart from being, if my memory serves, a red head and very attractive, (but then I was only 13 and in love with her) a teacher that didn't just do the dates of history but allowed us to look beneath the stories of history.

Malta Pre-trip diaries

Post Excavation Work is in progress