Tag Archives: old house
Student Research Post: Searching for World War II Remains
This is a post written by student Dan Joyce, who is currently studying on the Archaeological Computing MSc at the University of Southampton. Dan is one of the team who have been on site during the two surveying weeks that we have been running at Basing House, and is doing his major project on Basing […]
Basing House Survey Final Day – A rain check and some reflections
Originally posted on Kristian Strutt:
The second week of survey at Basing House finished on Friday in a spray of mud and rain, hailstones and inky cloud. What had promised to be a reasonable day quickly became unworkable, wet and cold. The teams set out for the final day of survey, focusing on completion of…
Spring Survey Week One – Day Three: by Kris Strutt
Originally posted on Kristian Strutt:
The third day of archaeological survey at Basing House is over, and the survey teams are really getting in to the swing of things. The two minibuses arrived at 9.20am, driving from sunny Southampton into mist and freezing temperatures around Basingstoke, ready for another exciting day at the site. Tim…
Preparing for the Spring Survey
This week some of the staff from the surveying modules for undergraduate Archaeology students visited Basing House to set out the grid for the planned survey work. As the site is so large, we spent some time working out where to put our pegs so that all of the teams of students would be able […]