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Posted 2007/07/03

First trip to the site

I went down to Silchester today to meet everyone and check out the dig.

It’s a bit of a swamp down there at the moment, glad I took my boots. Amusingly some of the students have turned up without any wet weather gear and they are camping on site. Lets hope they learn some survival skills in the coming weeks.

I met up with Emma and we had a general nose round the site. Using the N800 we did a rough site survey and we are a bit worried that the WiFi signal does not reach out into the corner of the dig site where we will be testing our equipment.

I had a look at ye olde computers they have for the students to use and Emma and I agree the easiest thing to do is to put Linux on them. That way they will all have the same OS instead of the mixture of Windows 98 - XP. Finally we talked to Klare and Amanda about what other IT kit we might need to buy (like printers). It even stopped raining in honor of my arrival, it was a good morning, see the pictures below.

Students cleaning up the site.
Students cleaning up the site, it was too wet to start digging for ancientness apparently.

The wireless access point in the HQ hut, this thing is a bit of a mystery to us at the moment.

Ye olde PCs.
PCs, possibly the oldest thing discovered at the Silchester site so far.

Klare in HQ.
Klare working in the HQ hut.