Bondicar Dig, Rescued from the sea. Low Hauxley

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Week 3 I believe of the Archaeological dig at the Bronze age burial ground at Bondicar

updates on the Northumberland Wildlife Trust website

less than 50% of the burial cairn remains:

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There is one massive heap of sand to be replaced!

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Down on the shore you can see the cairn in section. The cavity in the side is the grave that was excavated a few years ago. You can now see it must have been about in the centre of the cairn.

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there's something on the website about them uncovering a stone floor that could be any age up to medieval.

I guess this is it:

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The site is fenced off apart from the eroded face. Not sure if they will be letting joe public in for a closer look at some point?

The daughter with her school chums are invited to go digging there on Thursday so she'll get a closer look anyway.

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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?)