Summertime....and the diggin' is easy

[eilidhsd]

Well, it is not, not really. Seven hours cramped in a trench scraping through soil is back-breaking no matter where you try and put your legs, and there is dirt in every pore of me, with sweat trails running through the muck on my face by the time I crawled back into the car.
But I'm into my stride again with it now.

And this summer's treat is a beauty. A totally unspoiled valley, miles from anywhere, and untouched by man for at least three thousand years, with mesolithic leftovers spilling out from the soil in every square metre. And the weather, for once, is superb.

I'm a Roman geek but needs must, so I settle happily for a mesolithic site with hints of neolithic. Just so overjoyed to be out again.