by Richard | Mar 23, 2020 | March
Your favourite team of dedicated archaeologists are still plugging away at Port Arthur. As proof of that, here is a photo from this afternoon: Seven of us are working away on the excavation, like a bunch of individually-identifiable, colourfully-hatted dwarfs. In this...
by Richard | Mar 19, 2020 | March
Meet Horus. Horus is a Silver Gull looking for that special someone to share a chip with. Horus likes long worms on the beach. He also likes to walk over archaeological sites and defecate freely. Some of his best friends are the humans who spend their days on their...
by Richard | Mar 17, 2020 | Tell me about process
Survey brings out strong contradictory feelings within me. On the one hand, my favourite task during an excavation or archaeological survey is capturing the composition of archaeological sites and features graphically in 3D. So much information. So much power. On the...
by Richard | Mar 16, 2020 | March
We’ve just ticked over day three of the excavation – well, more like day two if Friday’s washout is not taken into account. The five excavation crew arrived last week and, after a short period of acclimatisation, were thrown outside into the...
by Richard | Mar 11, 2020 | March
We’ve had a few comments and questions about the mysterious round thing which is most brazenly sitting in the middle of our site. Outrageous, considering we haven’t even started properly excavating yet. As you can see from the pictures below, it is...
