Aidan Giblin caused pandemonium on the site this afternoon when he discovered a medieval coin in the side of the lintelled drain and we all rushed to his cutting to examine and photograph it. Through the day Catherine did a beautiful job emptying out a pit that produced large quantities of wheat grains when a sample was processed by Penny. Tom was in splendid isolation for the day excavating the interior of the kiln. Eamon and Tara started up the sieve to process medieval deposits from a possible drain. Lily came down to the site with scrumptious chocolate crispy buns for all the team. During the day Caroline arrived on the site with her son and his friends who de-sodded a new cutting near the service tower.
Carol and her gang volunteered for the day.
Lily made some delicious chocolate crispy buns with marshmallows for the team and they were yummy.
Aidan Giblin points out where he found the medieval coin.
Mick certainly did his homework and provisionally identified the coin as a groat (4 pennies) or 1/2 groat dating from the reign of Edward III c.1360. It was minted in London.
Catherine did a beautiful job emptying out a pit that produced large quantities of wheat grain.
Tom has been excavating the interior of the kiln (photo by Grace McCullen)
John McCullen discussing farm drains.
Activity at the western end of the excavations (photo by Mick Mongey).
Anelia carrying the finds up to the finds room at the end of the day (photo Grace McCullen).
Ciara Reynolds (second from left) took a day away from her work to volunteer on the site. She did a wonderful job straightening sections in advance of their being recorded by Matt.
Pat McCullen (with grandsons, Reuben & Jacob) meet the water delivery team bringing much needed water to the site (photo by Grace McCullen).
Sean and Gerard were ‘Age Friendly University’ students with Matthew Stout at DCU. Here they are seen removing the upper layers of Cutting V8.
A selfie of co-directors Geraldine and Matthew in their new hats.
Beaubec Excavations 