Sunday, June 11, 2006

Assessment Phase Ends

The initial Assessment Phase of fieldwork has now finished. Since February a series of seven boreholes, five test pits and numerous exposure recordings have allowed us to accurately produce a detailed model of the geology in the Valdoe Quarry.We have been given an enormous amount of uninhibited access to the Quarry through the continued, kind permission of Dudmans LTD.As a result we are now able to predict where deposits containing archaeology and environmental indicators are luckily to be preserved. Should any further extraction take place we shall therefore be in a position to develop a suitable plan for mitigation/rescue.