{"id":175,"date":"2022-06-28T12:17:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T12:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nortondisneyhag.org\/?page_id=175"},"modified":"2022-10-05T20:57:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T20:57:27","slug":"2022-community-dig","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nortondisneyhag.org\/?page_id=175","title":{"rendered":"2022 Community Dig"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Norton Disney Big Community Dig 2022<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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The Norton Disney Big Community Dig\" 2022 Was A Great Success<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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From 5th September 2022 until 16th September 2022 our group was excavating a site adjacent to the Norton Disney Roman Villa on Folly Lane, Norton Disney. We were working with our partners, Allen Archaeology, a well known commercial archaeology company to follow up on last year’s successful trial trenching on the site. The 20m x 20m trench over the Iron Age enclosure feature revealed a double ditch on the perimeter which terminated to an eastern gateway. Within this enclosure we found\u00a0 cooking pits, with associated fired cracked stones, pottery, flints, smelting slag and a couple of pieces of bone. The star finds were a “patch” or repair for a furnace made from fired clay and on the last day a base for a kiln or an oven or possibly a furnace.<\/span><\/p>

Our volunteers worked hard to reveal so much and we are very grateful for all their hard work.<\/span><\/p>

We also hoped the public enjoyed the open day on 10th September. In the space of just four hours 56 people came to see the site and find out about our discoveries. The event was part of the National Heritage Open Days<\/strong><\/a> which allows members of the public to see local heritage that would not normally be open to them. In our case an Iron Age enclosure.<\/span><\/p>

We are currently awaiting a report being written and finds being evaluated so it may be a few weeks yet before the final results are known. <\/span><\/p>

Once the final report is available we will be publishing it online.- Watch this space for updates!<\/strong><\/p>

Over the coming weeks\u00a0<\/strong>more\u00a0<\/strong>finds will be appearing on the “Finds 22” page. Click here<\/a><\/strong> to see them\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>

If you would like to experience a fly through of the “dig site” then you can watch a video click here<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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We also made the local news. We had two visits from Melvyn Prior from BBC Radio Lincolnshire.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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In addition The Newark Advertiser reported about our dig. To see the article click<\/span> here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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William Stukeley Tricentenary<\/p>

7th September 2022 was “William Stukeley Day” in Norton Disney<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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We marked the 300th anniversary of the visit to Potter Hill, where our dig site was, by William Stukeley<\/strong><\/a>. He was a famous Lincolnshire antiquarian. Perhaps one of the first archaeologists. He came to Potter Hill on 7th September 1722. Potter Hill is the historic name of the area that straddles the border of Collingham and Norton Disney. So we had a small tea party to celebrate that and a William Stukeley themed cake. William Stukeley travelled along the Fosse Way, came to Potter Hill and subsequently described Potter Hill as being the site of a Roman pottery. He also drew a landscape view from some where close to the junction of Folly Lane with the Fosse Way, looking towards Newark. He was the first person to describe the historic importance of the landscape here. Today Lincolnshire Historic Environment Records note this too. Click to see more here<\/a> <\/strong>and here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Our William Stukeley themed chocolate cake.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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William Stukeley’s account of his journey from Lincoln, to Potter Hill and onwards to Brough and\u00a0 Newark from Itinerarium Curiosum: or, an account of the antiquities, and remarkable curiosities in nature or art, observed in travels through Great Britain”<\/i><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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