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.

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.

On Saturday we completed the interim alalysis and recording of all the finds from trench 14. The attached document shows what trench 14 looks like, who the "finds" team are, gives some statistics and also shows some photographs of some of the special finds.

Post ex and cleaning up continues at Caer Alyn. No point in digging unless we do the post ex!

Post Excavation Work is in progress

This week a major assault on the ditch took place. It has always been unclear whether the ditch was 2m wide at the surface, or much wider, as the damp area could be read either way. At a depth of 90cm there is a very clear grey/green band of clay, so we chased that layer back out away from the stone revetment, hoping to find a change as we hit the ditch edge.

Over the last two weeks in February we have continued working on Trench 16 and have opened up Trench 18, which will hopefully not have too amny telephone cables in it. The embankment in the new trench 18 looks similar to that in Trench 16, so that is goo

Weekend dig 26th September 2009

This week we focused on the ditch at the foot of the bank. When the trench was initially opened we were fortunate to have had some heavy rain, so as the trench dried out, a 2m wide patch became clear.

An exploratory slot was opened several weeks ago in the ditch area, and we reached a depth of 1m, and seem still to be going down. This week we opened up the slot to half the trench width, to get some elbow room to go deeper.