Everyone returned to work this Monday morning with a pep in their step and launched into their cuttings with renewed vigour. Before tea break there were two separate announcements of medieval pottery finds and Penny informed us that we had our first medieval pea of the season. New volunteers Lisa, Brona and Ryan settled in well. All eyes are on the tower where Craig and Lennon have revealed an internal dividing wall. Cutting O finally emptied at natural bedrock. John and Aidan are getting down the level of the top of the moat and have found more tile fragments and an early brick. Billy has exposed a side wall of the flue but there is still a lot of modern fill that needs to be removed in his and Laura cuttings. Hugh McElveen and Catherine Bonner, with Eve, paid us a nice visit at lunch time.
Tom trowelling in his trial cutting.
Billy is getting down to the medieval layers and found this coarse cooking pottery (Leinster ware?).
Craig and Lennon cleaned up the section for this photograph of the tower deposits. They are 80cm down and have another meter to go!
Distinguished visitors to the site today: Hugh, Catherine and Eve.
Beaubec Excavations 
Looks like Leinster Cooking Ware alright, with the characteristic pinched-out angle between the base and the side of the pot.
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