All good things must come to an end and sadly this is the case here at Caerfai Camp. That’s right – it’s our last day on site. Our last chance to excavate, draw, survey, mattock, trowel, and sit pondering about whether a wall is a wall or if it’s a coincidental pile of stones.
It was quite a busy full on day for us here at #DigCaerfai. The sunshine brought around 50 visitors past our trenches and we couldn’t resist telling everyone about the wonderful finds and archaeological remains. We also had a visit from the lovely team at Coast and Country who filmed a segment for one of their next episodes. We can’t wait to see how it turns out and to give the CHERISH project some more recognition for the wonderful work they’re carrying out!
The Venturers continued down into the occupational zone of the trench, to clean features up for close up photos and in order to take photogrammetry shots to make a 3D model of the site. Cherish’s Lou worked with student Becca and aspirational archaeologist Josh, whilst Jo and Jamie got stuck in recording a post hole that had been excavated.
Back over in Trench 2, Cherish’s Dan discovered a small wall and possible further ditch. Being still nowhere closer to the bottom of the original ditch, we decided to clean up the trench and call it a day, and leave the unanswered questions for another time.
We hosted a live site tour through Zoom at midday, showing people from around the world and as far as Australia around our trenches, giving them the insider scoop on our features and what the team thought of the remains. We had some brilliant feedback – thanks to all who attended!
The rest of the day was taken up with strategising and working out the best way to finish and record our dug features, Here’s Cherish’s Lou and student Becca working out what was going on with their never ending posthole!
We also delivered more site tours, had a visit from the Ancient Monuments inspector Louise Mees and Ken from Dyfed Archaeological Trust, who offered some really interesting insights into our remains here at Caerfai Camp. Cherish’s Dan took to the skies with his drone once again, capturing some orthophotos (georeferenced aerial images) of our trenches so that we can use them to visualise the site better once it’s all filled back in.
Lovely veteran Venturer Jo brought the much-needed refreshments and treats for us – thanks Jo!
And therein marks our last day on site! With everything measured, recorded and having found out all we can for now, it’s Hoyle to the site and a good sleep for the team before a day of backfilling tomorrow…
