Primary Research Trip

For primary research into our study of The Shoreham Army Camp we went to the site and searched for artefacts from the period. Helping us with our excavation was Brian Drury, Jason Russell, Luke and Hamish Macgillivary, who is the curator of Worthing college. They taught us how to perform an excavation efficiently and productively. Put simply we were in a large field called happy valley which is believed to be one of the locations for barracks. Firstly we separated the field into squares on a grid, this helps to make sure that the same place isn't searched twice saving time, also when an artefact is found we can pinpoint its exact location to help us understand more about the camp and infer certain speculations, for example we found a stirrup in only one square, this would hint that there were stables in this area. One of our advisor's Brian had a GPS tracker which aloud him to pin point the exact location of an artefacts discovery extremely accurately. The first item we found was the top of a modern drinks can, this demoralized some of us, however Luke taught us to stay positive. By the end of the day we had found a wide variety of artefacts, a few nails, some military uniform buttons, a stirrup, some larger construction nails, and a latch used on windows.