Thanks to Richard, one of our leaders, we had the chance to do some real archaeology! We were invited to join in with a day's field-walking in the Vale of Glamorgan, in a field with Neolithic/Bronze age burial mounds, and a nearby 12th Century monastic grange.
We were very lucky with the weather, and had a dry, sunny day in which to explore the areas around the barrows. The field had recently had it's a bean crop harvested, so we quickly got used to ignoring the left-over beans as we walked or crawled across the furrows. Bits and pieces from almost every era turned up, from bits of modern farm tools, animals and fencing to Iron Age pottery and flint cores.
The Iron age pottery was actually found by Ammon, one of our members, after he decided his metal-detector wasn't really much use. What a find! You can see a photo of Ammon with his find (and several more) on the fieldwalking report on the GGAT website.
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