The excavation team

The success of the excavation was due to the commitment and hard work of all the volunteers - our grateful thanks are extended to them all:

Leoma Aitken, Brian Adams, Rick Bramley, Derek Brown, Hannah Brown, John Campbell Smith, Anne Coombs, Andy Dorin, Brian Duff, David Findlay, Norman Gibson, Christine Goetz-Catto, Charles Hepburn, Eddie Keatinge, Elspeth Kennedy, Przemyslaw Korczynski, Nick Lindsay, Sena Mackay, John-Angus Macleod, Meryl Marshall, Richard Munro, Jenny Nicholls, Penny Paterson, Melainey Rose, Carol Ross, Olly Ross, Marion Ruscoe, Jean Sargent, Meg Sinclair, Bill Stobo, Mary Stobo, Sine Stuart, Aisling Wells, Anna Welti, Peter Wild, John Wombell and Trina Wombell.

The excavation team would also like to thank all the visitors, over 300 in number, who came to the excavation site over its 2 week duration.

Excavation Director, Dr Janet Hooper	Site Archaeologist, Cathy Dagg	Site Archaeologist, Jane Roberts
Site Archaeologist, Dr Harry Robinson	SCAPE project officer, Labhaoise McKenna	Volunteer coordinator & researcher, Jacquie Aitken
Brian Adams	Hannah Brown	Andy Dorin
Brian Duff	Anna Welti and David Findlay	Christine Goetz-Catto
Elspeth Kennedy	Przemyslaw Korczynski	Nick Lindsay
Nick Lindsay (is this the same person?)	Meryl Marshall	Melainey Rose
Olly Ross	Carol Ross	Meg Sinclair
Bill Stobo	Mary Stobo	Trina Wombell
Leoma Aitken	Rick Bramley	Derek Brown
John Campbell Smith	Anne Coombs	Norman Gibson
Charles Hepburn	Eddie Keatinge	Sena Mackay
John-Angus Macleod	Richard Munro	Jenny Nicholls
Penny Patterson	Marion Ruscoe	Jean Sargent
Sine Stuart	Aisling Wells	John Wombell
With apologies to Peter Wild for not having a photo of him!
Action shots!
Introductory tour on Day 1	Mattie Matheson and the digger starting to excavate Trench 1	Essential bracken clearance to find the Saltman’s House
Nick, Mary and Sine metal-detecting around the old salt pans	Seeking shelter on Day 1	The end of Day 1: it did pour!
Lunch at base camp	Relaxing at base camp	Enough is enough!
Bill, Cathy and Meg puzzling over Trench 2	Marion, Meryl and Hannah exposing the rubble overlying the walls of the Saltman’s House	A busy Trench 2
An even busier Trench 2	Recording Trench 2	Starting to backfill Trench 2
Sine, Carol and Olly at work on the beach (Trench 3)	Przemyslaw and Jane removing (rapidly) the sand overlying the walling in Trench 3	Midge madness – and a new fashion accessory to be exported to Poland!
There is a building under here!	Labhaoise still claiming she enjoys de-turfing!	Discussions over the wall
Posing for a photo; then back to work	Forced again to stop work and smile at the camera!	Bill and Eddie excavating the fireplaces
Nick recording in Trench 4	There is really something interesting at the bottom of this hole!	Nick giving a tour during the Open Day
Nick explaining the Saltman’s House to a group of visitors	Two local residents come along for a look at the 2007 excavation in progress	Nick with his mother
The sign that lunch time approaches	Some of the visitors caught the excavation bug more than others…	An unexpected visitor who joined the excavation team for the afternoon!