Digging under the pavement

This one is for Sheila, something I've never done before but she's an old hand.  I helped with a community archaeological dig organised by the Westmorland Dales Landscape Partnership Scheme on Friends of the Lake District land at Little Asby.  It was a 'keyhole excavation', led by experts from Oxford, with the aim of giving a much clearer idea of exactly when the area was settled and to help identify a site for a more extensive excavation next year.  It was hard work digging with a trowel around the blocks of limestone pavement and blocks used to make the walls of a long-house, possibly around the 1400s.  It was quite exciting to find a piece of charcoal at a depth of nearly a metre, which will now be sent away for carbon dating.