Digging 29: Library room

Panic stations! The opening up of a new area on site (as I mentioned yesterday) has revealed more extensive building remains than we expected.

This is a room in the mid-17th century University Library building; you can perhaps make out a slightly darker slot running left/right over the ground surface which held a floor joist. The "shelf" on the wall at the back would also support the floorboards. Above the shelf, there are traces of wall-plaster. All-in-all a cosy wee room.

The trouble is that all these features must be recorded in great detail at a time when we were hoping to put most people onto digging and recording skeletons (and two new skeletons were discovered today! I think there are 32 now)
The weather gets worse, the light gets worse and we only have a month or so left to finish the site.

This explains the poor quality of today's blip. Don't have time to grab a camera and get my head into "photospace" to take a decent blip. Apologies, but you may have a month more of this....