2nd July: Many bottles of sun cream later the whole team is still smiling, and doing a great job on site. Though this is the 3rd day of the heat wave, nothing seems to stop the team from getting the job done…oops spoke to soon, as I am writing this the storms have just struck (however muggy madness earlier).

Today Trench P has cracked on with the removal of the last fills in the wall robbing ditch in the North East corner of their trench, as well as beginning to investigate a potential cobbled path to the west of the hospital building. There has also been some patient work finishing revealing the main wall.

Trench N however, not wanting Trench P to take all the glory has also cracked on very well with their planning and cleaning floor layers for photographs, before digging them out and going through the process all over again.

All hands to the deck in Trench U today exposing the structures, with some nice finds coming out including some post dissolution pottery.

Outside of the trenches the UAV took flight again this time to start the task of 3D modelling the landscape in and around the abbey. One field done...many more to go, but stay tuned for the 3D models!

And finally our first feature trailer of the site has now been uploaded on to our facebook page so go and check it out J

https://www.facebook.com/thornton.excavation?fref=ts