We Dig The Castle: Nottingham Castle's annual training excavation

Trent & Peak Archaeology are excited to announce that booking is now open for budding trainee archaeologists to uncover the history of by being a part of this summer’s We Dig… Wollaton Park training excavations! We Dig… Wollaton Park will run from 15th July to 9th August and enables people from all backgrounds, aged 14-plus, to get involved in archaeological investigations uncovering new information about the history and archaeology of Wollaton Hall and its surrounding parkland landscape. Keep up to date with the project on our Main Trent & Peak page and on Twitter . For more information and to book please visit https://www.tparchaeology.co.uk/new-events

New Events — Trent & Peak Archaeology Jul 15 to Aug 9 We Dig... Wollaton Park Mon, Jul 15, 2019 9:00 AM09:00 Fri, Aug 9, 2019 5:00 PM17:00 Wollaton park (map) Google Calendar ICS We Dig… Wollaton Park 2019 will carry out the first archaeological investigation of the Park in 10 years.Click on the image for more details View Event →

Week 4 of We Dig the Castle! We had the YAC competition winners yesterday and they took part in finds washing, digging and learnt about flotation and augering. Elliot, Harvey and Sophie.

Day 8 at and TPA's Marius does a session on recording animal bones with our trainees

Day 7: A hot day again at but Tristan's team were happy with our first medieval pottery find (even if it was sat next to pottery that wouldn't look out of place at B&Q...) We also had a finds bonanza with sessions from Laura Binns and Peter Hammond!

at - photos from trainee Liz.

of . Trainees were able to create section and plan drawings of the trenches as excavated so far, and carried out their first building recording at the Nottingham Castle gatehouse.

of and trainees have continued with the trowelling learnt about stratigraphy, had an animal bone identification tutorial and finished by cleaning up the trench - ready for tomorrow's trainees to learn about planning. We've also escaped from the heat with some finds washing, while Explainer volunteer Michael has been kept busy sharing the dig with visitors at the Ye Olde Trip To Jerusalem next door.

at . We've been filmed for TV, learnt clay pipe identification with local expert Peter Hammond, carried out our first building recording session, been trained in site photography, continued excavating in Brewhouse Yard and started the 2018 test-pitting in Nottingham Castle's Outer Bailey, where we'll be seeking to investigate the course of the brick platform uncovered in 2018.

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of We Dig the Castle 2018. We've stripped turf, broken ground in our first trench, trowelled, washed finds, sieved and had a finds identification workshop.... phew! Explainer volunteer Cara has been talking archaeology with visitors to Ye Olde Trip To Jerusalem and we even got the marquee up (many thanks to the anonymous supporter who made its purchase possible). A big thank you for the hard work of everyone on team Day 1 - and see you tomorrow!

... and we're off!