Dig the Castle - Excavation and Outcomes
A random selection of the day to day process of the excavation
Main Images by our resident photographer and big thanks to PAUL SEED
All other images by the onsite crew – thankyou!
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Day 1
First day of Dig setup......
Day 2
A start is made on the 'Mound' and the 'rampart' trench is sliced into the slope.
Day 3
Onward
Day 4
Onward
Day 4
Wednesday was a blow out! Storm force winds and heavy rain onsite meant we cancelled all work for the day-during which the perimeter fence needed constant attention when it blew down.
Day 5
Back to work!
Day 6
Onward again
Day 7
Open Day
A busy day for the onsite archaeologists explaining what was going on and the processes and finds.
PETROC College came and photographed the site, and in due course will provide some exciting visuals for us to use.
Day 8
Family Day
A great and enthusiastic turn out for the younger members to see whats going on.
Day 9
Onwards again
Day 10
Onwards again
Day 11
School visits started and we had the excitement of ITV West Country news turn up for a news indent.
Monkleigh Primary school were the beneficiaries of the interviews!
Drone footage thanks to MATT JONES - Thankyou
Day 12
More schools visits and a visit (and dig) from our one of our funders, Devon County councillor Andrew Saywell.
Day 13
A visit from 2 of our main funders - councillors from both the Torridge District Council and the Town Council. We could not have done this project without their very enthusiastic support - thankyou.
Day 14
Final day of 'digging'.
Day 15
Put it all back!!
Day 16
Gone!
A Thankyou to our sponsors can be found elsewhere, but the Volunteer ‘crew’ who arrived, sorted, cleaned, built, dug, and generally did all the required stuff that’s needs doing for this sort of project to work need crediting – hopefully none have been missed, and apologies if so….
John Eeles
Emily Wapshott
Bill o’ Donnell
Bella Tibbets
Donal Lucey
Chenie Miller
Sue Mills
Dave Gibbons
Paul Seed
Felicity Bright
Andrew Hill
and of course all our volunteers who did such amazing work
THANKYOU