I drove up to Toodyay today to stop in at the archeological dig which is part of the project that we started in York in January. It was soooo cold. Must have been about 15 degrees maybe less. Arriving on the last day I got to see the full extent of the excavations, and what [...]
Convicts
I think I might, just might, be becoming obsessed by clay pipes. Don’t worry I’m sure it will pass… sometime. Remember my clay pipe? Here’s a view from side on to help jog your memory. Well I was curious about the markings… After all, if I knew a bit more about the maker, maybe we [...]
Well I’m back home after my archaeological adventure, and I’m so glad I went. We might still be arguing over what that structure is that we found… maybe a cookhouse (there were lots of bones), maybe a privy – probably only further excavation will tell… but what we all came away with was a great [...]
Here I am at work with M, who is about to do her honours degree in Canberra at ANU. We’ve just sieved a bucket of dirt and M is handing me the three bits of glass we found in the bottom. I’ve been excavating Context 059 of Trench 6 which we thought might have been [...]
Isn’t it beautiful? The letters you can see are V-I-S so we think it’s a Ben Nevis pipe made somewhere in Glasgow. Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in the UK and a lot of clay pipes came from Scotland. Clay pipes were the disposable cigarette of the 1800s. The thin hole in the stem [...]
I’m very excited. You see this guy… His name is Sean. He’s a PhD student in Archeology at UWA. He’s studying convicts in WA. And he’s going on a field trip next year. And (this is the exciting bit) I’m going with him to help! Before I met Sean all I knew about convicts in [...]
