The second of four weeks on the Aska platform mound went well too. Highlights:
- We’ve deturfed a total of 200 sqm and removed the topsoil.
- Thanks to some extra volunteers, I had 19 people working with me one day, a personal record.
- We’ve made some 1st millennium artefact finds, but they are quite humble so far: a few potsherds and belt knives only.
- The top 30 cm are quite disturbed, with occasional modern objects found below the level at which the hall’s postholes and wall lines appeared. These disturbances include at least one waste pit full of pig jaws.
- We have a point from a 13/1400s crossbow bolt and a 1559-60 coin of Gustavus I. They date from long after the hall was torn down, but are interesting anyway.
Aardvarchaeology - by Dr. Martin Rundkvist 
Did the long axis of the hall run left to right or top to bottom in your first aerial photo?
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Left to right. The trench is 20 m long and oriented across the hall, whose width was 14 m.
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https://thecurious605531859.wordpress.com/2020/07/13/archaeology-cerne-abbas-giant-is-not-prehistoric-more-likely-dates-to-medieval-times/
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Martin et al will have fine excavation weather from Thursday onwards. The rain appears to favor my home town in the north.
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