Rain stopped play today as yesterday's weather forecast unfortunately proved accurate, making work impractical.

Our brave diggers soldiered through the early morning torrents and we did manage to backfill Trench 5 (after carefully removing all the frogs!) and finish spreading topsoil on Trench 1, so the only remaining open trench is now Trench 3.

A lull in the downpour late in the morning allowed us to do a little more digging in Trench 3 to reveal more of the very substantial wall in it, and it began to look as if the wall has been truncated at both north and south ends, but the heavens soon opened again making digging very difficult and surveying, photography and drawing out of the question.

We were therefore forced to call an early end to the day in the hope that tomorrow will be a little better; we now have just one day left to clean up, fully record and backfill Trench 3.

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