Holyrood Archaeology Day 4
We had a beautiful day on Dunsapie Hill, with the sun shining throughout. This gave us incredible views across the city and Holyrood Park, which allowed us to reflect on the position of Dunsapie Hillfort in its landscape. Trench 4 had an exciting day, with lots of finds – especially animal remains which students were able to identify. Additionally, we opened a new trench. Read on for the student’s experiences!
Holyrood Archaeology Day 3
Our third day of excavations at Dunsapie Hillfort have started to reveal more information on the ramparts of the Hillfort. Students have opened another trench, which has already had some exciting finds! Another group of students worked with Gemma to learn about surveying, and were able to survey in the finds from each trench.
Day 2 – Our First Finds and Surveying
The excavations of Dunsapie Hillfort continued, and students made progress on the two open trenches. A small group were given an introduction to surveying by Gemma from AOC Archaeology. Read about their experiences here!
Day 1 – Site Tour and De-Turfing
The Holyrood 2022 Field School has begun, with students from The University of Edinburgh, and support from AOC Archaeology. Each day, students will share their experiences on this blog as well as any updates from the excavations! Gabby’s Experience Today was my first day of…
Friday 10th September
Excavation blog by Fiona ChildWe spent our final day on site finishing up some section drawings and then back-filling the trenches. The last week and a half of excavating has been an amazing learning experience for all of us, even if we didn’t find as…
Thursday 9th September
Survey blog by Elizabeth Coleman Today was a busy day for the survey team as we worked through the rain and extremely foggy weather to finish our survey work before our last day on Friday! We began by visiting the parade ground next to Holyrood…
Wednesday 8th September
Survey blog by Cameron Hamilton Today we started our morning doing some more geophysics as we used a magnetometry cart to survey the 20th century practice trenches that are located in the grassy area next to Dunsapie loch. While most of the group did magnetometry,…
Monday 6th September
Excavation blog by Matt Reid The excavation team spent the first day of the last week continuing to dig out and cleaning the trenches. A lot of progress was made as we drew and took pictures of how much the trenches have changed. After documenting…
Tuesday 7th September
Excavation blog by Ita Ossowska Today was a day of unexpected developments. The day started quite auspiciously with a very nice, calm and warm weather. However (and quite fortunately), just before we were about to start our daily journey uphill to the site (which is…
Friday 3rd September
Excavation blog by Ross Morrison Our third day of excavation started in the same manner as yesterday, with cold and windy weather. We continued to trowel down to the next layers of the trench so we could see what was there, allow us to take…