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Diary Extra – Day Twelve in pictures

Tuesday, July 18, 2023

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Nick J. and Lisa move a decorated stone from Structure Ten. (📷 Sigurd Towrie)
Alice and Dr Jo McKenzie discuss the deposit inside Structure Eight's entrance. (📷 Sigurd Towrie)
Structure One. (📷 Sigurd Towrie)
Phoenix excavating the robber debris to the side of Structure Twenty-Seven's entrance. (📷 Sigurd Towrie)
Allyson at the north-eastern corner of Structure Twenty-Seven. (📷 Sigurd Towrie)
Aaron and Sarah excavating a pottery spread in Structure Five. (📷 Paul Durdin)
Incised pottery sherd in situ. (📷 Paul Durdin)
The drying pottery sherd, with incised decoration, from Structure Five drying in the finds hut. (📷 Sigurd Towrie)
He's back! Structure Twelve supervisor Jim Rylatt. (📷 Sigurd Towrie)
Eleanor investigating the 'lump' - a raised area that runs across the interior of Structure Twelve. (📷 Sigurd Towrie)
Clearly very happy with her second find of the day - Estella with the flint knife from Trench T. (📷 Sigurd Towrie)
Estella back in the finds hut with her second flint tool of the day. (📷 Sigurd Towrie)
Tom excavating the last of the Structure Eight hearth overlying Structure Seventeen's wall. (📷 Sigurd Towrie)
Aaron and Sarah in Structure Five's northern extension. (📷 Sigurd Towrie)
Linda sampling the ashy material in Structure Twelve's north-western recess. In the foreground in Twelve's eastern entrance and annexe. (📷 Sigurd Towrie)
A swimming pool outside the 'Great Wall'? (📷 Sigurd Towrie)
Planning. Planning. Planning. Kristina at the southern end of Structure Eight. (📷 Sigurd Towrie)

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