Farnborough Hall visit no. 2

Another visit to Farnborough Hall, this time to photograph a team from the Coventry and Warwickshire National Trust Volunteers who helped the Hall staff to clear small trees and vegetation from the amphitheatre

See my blog entry for 10 September for more information about Farnborough Hall and the work archaeologist Stephen Wass is carrying out.

Here they are working

And here they are having a tea break. Actually they worked very hard and were well deserving of their breaks.

We found some interesting items beneath the vegetation and these were recorded photographically. Later on archaeologist Stephen Wass will do a full job on recording them. This was some metalwork which is possibly a container with handles. It's very corroded and is in an area where there is evidence of possible burning. There was much speculation about what it might be, and there's a lot of pressure on Stephen to come up with a plausible explanation.

Here's a mountain of debris they collected from the site. There's a tractor in there somewhere trying to push it to the edge of the site for disposal. Actually, it'll probably be left to decay naturally; an excellent way of encouraging wildlife to live in it and eat it for a couple of years.

After a hard day's work, here's the central area of the amphitheatre and we're starting to see how it would have looked in the 18th century.










Loads more images can be seen in the gallery here

Stephen's website is here

Here's the National Trust's Farnborough Hall site

And there's some historical stuff here

That's it for now. Chris.