A morning at the dig site. The children got a tour first where they showed some of the Roman and Saxon artifacts that have been unearthed locally to include a Saxon warrior buried with his horse.  Then we headed out to the current dig site.  Since the area has been rich in archeological finds the local government requires the archeologist team to come in during excavation and remove anything significant before building begins.  

The area is divided into squares which are shoveled off in thin layers with trowels.  Then they sift into buckets.  Overandoverandoveragain. My hat's off to them because 20 minutes in this job gets a little tedious.  Abbie Rose hit jackpot however.  She  pulled up a tiny piece of Saxon pottery.  (not what she is holding)  

In case this is starting to look like the little people are the stars of the show I should point out the site organizers split up the kids into teams and we had to stay with the littles. This happens alot, so they get the most press.  Moira, Aidan and Kieran were on the other end of the dig site though.