a note from Archaeology World

i've been occupying a parellel world for the past 3 weeks. it's called Archaeology World. in this parelell universe time goes a lot slower- i feel like i've been here for months rather than weeks. also it's hard to remember that there is is life outside of it and people who arn't archaeologists.i have been living and workingdown in pembrokeshire on the gas pipeline that is beng laid from milford haven to swansea then eventually on to hereford. it's been great to get back to digging after the stress ful PGCE year and the money is actually really good especially with all the overtime i have been doing (i've been doing 60 hour weeks so far).

so apart from getting a good tan ( well on my arms and neck) there is actually some really cool stuff that has been found. i'm digging on a site a the moment where we found a bronze age (roughly 3000 year) canoe in a bog, perfectly preserved. unfortunatly they aren't sure whether they have the money to lift and preserve it. elsewhere they found a massive henge monument ( really deep circular ditches not bit standng stones like stonehenge) again though half of it has been destroyed now by the pipeline. strange that its lain underdiscovered for 4000 years then uncovered for 3 months, then destroyed.

a few of us managed to escape to cardiff this weekend, out of Arch World. actually had quitea trip down memory lane as my friend happens to live about 10 doors down from the chip shop i used to live in when i was young. i get to escape again next week when i get to spend a long weekend in manchester in the new house i hae supposedly moved to.