Happy Reading

Hello Readers

As Christmas is coming and you're no doubt stumped for gift ideas why not consider a copy of "Digging Up Plugstreet" by Martin Brown & Richard Osgood. It's a cracking read.

On the subject of great reads, you could also have a look at the "Chroniques de l'Archaeologie Wallone" 26, 2009. It's published by the Province of Wallonia and includes short reports on work undertaken in the region in 2007, including Plugstreet.

Recording Methods

Those of you that have visited us on site will know of all the many methods we employ for recording our work. One of these is to film our work to provide detail on decisions made and methods employed. This has the added benefit of the potential for producing documentary work on the excavations. Angela and Derek have filmed all of the fieldwork so far and Angela has now put together a 1 minute clip of the work as a trailer for a documentary proposal. We hope this leads to further work for the project!

The Project was selected as one of five finalists for the National Film Board of Canada Cross-Media Challenge 2009 competition at The Sheffield Documentary Festival. Angela delivered a presentation to the international judging panel and gathered audience, which was well received. Unfortunately we didn't scoop the main prize, but were very pleased to have reached the final and obtained some useful feedback and encouragement.

Digging Up Plugstreet

We have just been told that "Digging Up Plugstreet" by Richard Osgood and Martin Brown will be going to press this afternoon.

This account of our research to date is published by Haynes and is available through Amazon, as well as from all good bookshops.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h__4_10?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=digging+up+plugstreet&sprefix=Digging+up

http://www.haynes.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10001&storeId=10001&productId=48413&langId=-1

Rest assured that Martin and Richard will be rearranging the displays in bookshops to give themselves more prominence. I am assured it's the perfect Christmas gift for the Great War obsessive in your household.