| Pupils
from Beaufront First School were joined by archaeologists and
students from the University of Newcastle. They took part in an
excavation in the copse attached to their school playground during
the Summer term, 2005. |
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For
several years pupils at Beaufront School have been finding bits
of Victorian pottery from the copse. This used to be the midden
or rubbish tip for the local farm. Two metre-square test pits
were excavated in this area as well as two similar sized pits
in the school field. |
| How
we recorded our dig |
 We
had to use a tape measure, ranging rod, recording grid, digital
camera, video camera, eye, a pencil and a piece of paper. We
put the paper on something solid and we got the tape measure
and found a hole in the ground. In the hole, you might not know
what I mean, well you have the pit, like shown in the picture,
and the holes are from big rocks and stuff. We measured where
the holes had been then we recorded it. What I mean by record
it is, you know that piece of paper, we got a ruler and measured
with a tape measure the holes and then worked out how big it
had to be to fit on the piece of paper, the piece of paper was
smaller than the pit. The pit was 1 metre by 1 metre. We measured
from the left.
By Kathryn |
| Tools
you might see on site |
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We
used a diamond trowel for scraping back the soil. It is a
very sharp object.
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A mattock
is like a pick axe but one end is flat. It is much more powerful
than a trowel. |
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This
is a line level. We used it
to help us measure things stuck in the side of the pit. |
When
we were trowelling
we had to kneel on kneelers in case we hurt our knees. |
| We
were split into four groups, click to find out more... |
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