... the weather is sweet, and the archaeology even sweeter! We've been on site with our full team for just over a week now, and in this...

What a difference a week makes! We've had amazing weather, and everyone has been eager and willing to get back on site and dig. We're...

The top-soil has been stripped back, the trowels readied and the hand-sanitiser bottled. The amazing medieval archaeology is peaking out...

As we’ve moved into our final field-school week, attention has turned to identifying key areas of interest or unresolved archaeology....

The final instalment from this week's dig... Over the course of the week, there are two areas which have progressed excitingly. Read on...

Continuing on from Part 1, keep reading to find out more about our progress this week... Further excavation of the curtain wall has...

This blog post comes with an apology for the severe delay in posts this week. Late nights digging, visits from medieval building...

So, last Friday was unfortunately rained off, so today was our first day back on site after a slightly longer weekend than normal. I...

From the get-go, today was wet and windy. Not to be deterred, we persevered with the excavations until the threatening forecast of...

Despite early speculation that digging would be called off today because of the rain, it stayed clear enough for us to be out all day...

You can’t walk across or around the trench without bumping into a wall somewhere. Today was mostly about continuing the cleaning effort...

Sunny and bright, this was the perfect start to this year’s summer excavation. After stripping the site (see last blog post) today was...

Following the success of our excavations last year (see Daily Dig Diary 2018 for more) we are back excavating at Auckland Castle once...

As ever, the last few days of an archaeological project are always the busiest. Today was no exception. We still have a few outstanding...

As we enter the latter half of our last week our minds have all become focused on trying to finish and understand some of our more...

Following the developments in days 10 and 11, Day 12 was all about trying to answer some of those questions which have arisen from the...

At the end of last week, some big discoveries were made which have impacted upon the trajectory of the excavations as we move into our...

By Maxine McCarty, first year BA Archaeology student. I found what appears to be a 17th century glass wine goblet stem. The stem has an...

Although Storm Hector was determined to halt progress on the dig so far, we battled on despite a few buckets flying around. Read on to...

The sun has been shining all day and we have been making some real progress. In Trench 2, rooms and features have been cleaned up and are...