Post Excavation Analysis
During the course of 2009 I visited offices and laboratories at several Universities in order to make drawings of the Post Excavation Analysis. This was particularly interesting having witnessed and drawn the excavation of the finds on location.
I saw slices of earth from Durrington Walls under the microscope in The University of Cambridge Archaeological dept. Then, bones and seeds, also from Durrington Walls were under scrutiny at Sheffield University.
I watched Irene Deluis an archaeological illustrator painstakingly draw ancient objects from the excavations in her home office outside Sheffield.
In Oxford I witnessed Radio Carbon Dating in the accelerator mass spectrometer – a huge machine.
At Bournemouth University the Geo Physical Survey team were collating all the accumulated evidence and data whilst preparing for a final visit to Amesbury.
Mike Allen the snail specialist worked both at Bournemouth University and at his own home lab – the snail fragments from Stonehenge were telling new significant stories.
It was rewarding to record some people again in their labs having followed their work in the field.
I learnt so much during my visits, the drawings just give a snapshot of the painstaking procedures involved in this enormous project.