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Sample for Tree-ring Dating

Posted on November 14, 2022 by tcablogmaster

Some years ago members may remember that we submitted a sample of the ancient timbers we discovered buried at Millhams for tree-ring dating and we were delighted to receive a report that a portion of the huge beam was constructed … Continue reading →

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Coring Project in Druitt Gardens, Christchurch

Posted on October 29, 2021 by tcablogmaster

We had a good day in Druitt Gardens on Thursday 28 October 2021 when our drilling contractor was on site for the next phase of our archaeological coring project in Druitt Gardens. The cores were drilled by a small, self-mobile, … Continue reading →

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Druitt Gardens Coring Project

Posted on October 24, 2021 by tcablogmaster

Earlier this year TCA was very pleased to receive a grant of funding from Christchurch Town Council in order to make further investigations of the geophysical anomalies discovered in our survey of 2019/2020. The type of investigation we proposed was … Continue reading →

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Lost Long Barrow near Sopley Revealed

Posted on November 30, 2019 by tcablogmaster

During November, we joined with AVAS to investigate the site of the long barrow near Sopley which had been flattened during the construction in 1944 of an airfield for the support of the D-Day landings.  The barrow had been well-documented … Continue reading →

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Progress with Augering

Posted on July 17, 2019 by tcablogmaster

Since we started the augering of the site in 2018, as reported in a previous blog post, we have completed some 8 lines across the site in an E-W direction, each containing boreholes spaced at 2m apart. The length of … Continue reading →

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Augering Results

Posted on November 28, 2018 by tcablogmaster

We have tried to make sense of the results of augering by plotting the layers within our mapping project using QGIS and analysing them with a useful plug-in (‘Midvatten’) originally designed and intended to record the stratigraphy and hydrology from … Continue reading →

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High Tide at Millhams

Posted on November 28, 2018 by tcablogmaster

It’s almost time to put our site at Millhams to bed for the winter months.  Last weekend the combination of heavy rain and a high tide produced a very soggy and puddled site to work in.  We have been continuing … Continue reading →

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Mike’s Monster Auger

Posted on June 11, 2018 by tcablogmaster

The idea to auger a series of test pits proved successful but we soon realised that the little sampling auger we had been using was too short the reach the levels at which we had discovered medieval traces. In order … Continue reading →

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Start of the 2018 Season at Millhams

Posted on May 7, 2018 by tcablogmaster

Encouraged by the spell of warm and dry weather, a small group of TCA members embarked on the first session of the 2018 season at Little Millhams on the May Day Bank Holiday weekend.  Readers of this blog will perhaps … Continue reading →

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Test Pit Count Exceeds the Half-Century!

Posted on July 16, 2017 by tcablogmaster

While preparing a report for our Annual General Meeting held in June 2017, tcablogmaster was intrigued by the statistics of our excavations at Millhams.  During the period June 2016 to June 2017 the number of test pits completed exceeded fifty … Continue reading →

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