The TerrACE Team in Action at Gueswick in 2020

The TerrACE Team is led by Professor Antony Brown. They are producing a toolkit and approach for the EU and FAO-UNESCO to deal with the archaeology of terrace and lynchet systems – put very very basically: The questions are

How old are they?

What were they constructed for and how?

And lastly how important as a carbon sink and how stable are they?

After discussions with Martin Green, Perry Gardner and Tony Metcalfe several test pit sites were selected. Perry had already opened two test pits for his PhD research and suggested three more would be useful. Some committee members assisted with this work for two days and then helped with the back filling. The TerrACE team were on site for four days, the results of the soil samples many carefully taken for OSL testing will take several months to process.

Take a look at their website for more information by following this link.

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Lidar and Photo images of the terraces

The TerrACE team at work

In 2020 members of Altogether Archaeology assisted Perry Gardner and student with some sampling work at Gueswick

Drone photos of the site taken when the work was taking place – Stephen Eastmead