Not yet - we’ve only been here about four months, and we’re still discovering stuff all the time. I am considering doing an archaeology summer camp this or next

Not yet - we’ve only been here about four months, and we’re still discovering stuff all the time. I am considering doing an archaeology summer camp this or next year, however, and am chatting to a lecturer friend about the prospect. It’s a fascinating site - there are traces of a ford, which is interesting, as the bridge (3km downstream) was built in the 1200s, and presumably replaced the ford. I think the majority of what we’re seeing is ~1200 - ~1880s, but there is a cave way up a hillside that I went for a ferret down that was suspiciously man-sized, and had an antler poking out through the mud on the floor, at which point I decided to leave it be until someone who knows more than me looks at it - as I suspect it was an antler pick, which would place the mine in the Neolithic at latest. There were also Romans in this neck of the woods, but I’ve seen nothing that has said Roman to me yet. Either way, the site has evidently seen quite a bit of activity over the ages, only falling into disuse in the early 20th century - I found a taxation tag embedded in a gnarly old olive tree that identified it as being planted in 1914, and it looked like it hadn’t been pruned ever, meaning someone probably planted it and then got the Spanish flu.