John Parry in a bit of a hole ...

Rebecca Chambers provides this rather strange shot of John Parry, half buried in a hole by the fence during the 1981 season. Beside John, the extent of the soil sampling and scrunging activities supervised by Frank Green who was, inevitably, always know as 'Frank the Soil', may be gauged by the volume of sample bags. Behind John a long and continuous cutting stretching from about A6 or B6 to L7-ish

Cutting B6 porch posthole

Serious posthole on Cutting B6, August 1979, feature number not known by me. Shame no scale in sight, but I do remember this being an exceptionally large one. Must have been hard work hacking through the oolites to make this.

Cuttings AA6, A6, B6, AA5 and A5,1979

Top: cutting AA6, August 1979, Chris Phillpotts, who has noticed the photographer, sagely tugging his beard to make it appear that thought processes are occurring, whilst Ros Cleal and Sarah Roberts discuss what to do next.

Middle: cuttings AA6, AA5, A6, B6 and A5, August 1979, Ros Cleal just discernible up by the rampart beyond the fence that divides the Council land from that of the National Trust.

Bottom: cutting A6 looking across the National Trust side towards Birdlip: Dave Southwood and Marion Barter examine some suspiciously coherent looking features.