Tuesday 10 March 2009

Revisiting the Geophysics

Based on the comments from John Mills, we have looked again at the geophysics done at Parham last year, and there appears to be a large area of "noise" on both sides of the footpath half way between the church and the car park.

This ties in with John's estimated position of the church land where the parsonage was located unitl the end of the 1700's when it was pulled own. The area of noise is also adjacent to a east-west feature that appears to be a path to the gate in the church yard, which may have been exposed in one of our trenches last year, when on the last day of the dig we deturfed an area on one of the mounds by the path, and located a packed iron-stone surface.

Therefore, this area could be one of the targets for the exacavtion over the late May bank holiday weekend.