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 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...
by Richard | Mar 2, 2020 | March
Mechanical excavation of the site has finished, leaving behind a site that suddenly looks a lot larger than it did when it was safely covered with turf. Rain over the weekend has brought out the site nicely, showing up distinct deposits (former gravelled surfaces,...
by Richard | Feb 27, 2020 | February
It’s begun! Today the first sod of earth was turned. Well, a man in a machine scraped away the first bit of dry topsoil – but you get the picture. Over the years since the site was given up as a penal station in 1877, there has been a lot of activity...
