Well, the daughter went on her big dig; Archaeologists had them on the beach uncovering the Mesolithic footprints, and taking plaster casts to take back to school.
Now on the subject of Mesolithic footprints, The BBC documentary with Neil Oliver "A History of Ancient Britain", episode 1 "Age of Ice" of which there is a clip here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00yk27f shows some footprints in Wales, which are just not as good as ours! The Welsh ones are poor mud casts were ours are proper footprints. Interestingly ours contain Wild Boar and Deer prints as well. Three cheers for Bondicar!
The PDF report on the Bondicar footprints is online here:
http://www.archaeologicalresearchser...%20Deposit.pdf
Back to he Bronze age, the daughter tells me the archaeologists estimate there could be up to 12 burials remaining in the cairn, but they had not started taken it apart yet as of yesterday morning.
I note the latest update on the
Northumberland Wildlife trust website is now dating the material on the western side of the dig as Roman-British (Romano-British?)