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With the tide going out later again (about 10.30am), the pressure is really building. Series producer Tim Taylor gives Onsite his thoughts first thing in the morning: ‘We’re in the incident room early today to shoot some scenes with Stewart and Kikar (a new member of the graphics team, who's taken over from Maya). They’re looking at some survey results and running through theories. It looks like these points are matching up with the survey done by Jane Sidel, and we’re getting a good idea of why that post may have been there.’
Any problems Tim? ‘We had a lot of rain last night and we’ve lost power to the incident room. Everything that needs power, including you internet guys, has pretty much been shot for the time being. We have one cable running from the security guard's office to run one computer!’
And how about the excavation? ‘We are heading towards lifting the post this morning, but conditions are quite bad and it’s very wet down on the site. But the programme is going well and it’s a good start to day three.’
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By 11am the crew and diggers were forging ahead in the confined conditions around the trench. All were fighting against the elements and the tension was running high. The trench was getting deeper and water pumps were lowered in to help clear the bottom. Then at around 11.20 a major event happened. Unfortunately we can’t tell you any more than that.
Things have really been pushing ahead on the final day. We are restricted by time, though, so the location diary has to finish at midday. Survey results are still coming in thick and fast and the theories are coming together. Unfortunately we can’t give you any more than that just yet. You will need to watch the programme to find out what happened.
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To finish off for this upload, Onsite caught up with Gus Milne, the Thames waterfront specialist from the Institute of Archaeology, UCL: ‘The Thames is a fundamental part of the history of London. The remarkable thing is that we know so little about it. I’ve spent the last 25 years exploring the Roman and medieval Thames and that’s been a revelation to me. Here on this project we’re actually trying to go back around 3,000 years. We have found lots of new stuff doing this project and the whole thing has been very interesting, quite an experience’.
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