Our awesome experience (by year 10 students Chantelle & Sheona)

Hello to everyone, this is Chantelle and Sheona.
We are the year 10 work experience students and we have been working here for the past two days on the archaeological dig. We will be here for the rest of the working week.
Ohh my, and what an awesome two days it’s been so far! We started on [...]

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Tuesday 15th September

Day Six
Hello all, this is Sheona and Chantelle and we are the two year 10 work experience students that have been working here, in the Redcliffe Museum for the past two days.
Today we started out with the introduction that Michelle read us and what our goal for the day was. This was to mainly work in trench [...]

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Monday 14th September

Day Five
Today we have had a busy morning showing people our fantastic find.  The Mayor of Moreton Bay Region, Cr Allan Sutherland, along with other Councillors, Rae Frawley and James Houghton, visited the site and were excited about the finds and interested to learn more about the site.  Another visitor was Dr John Steele, the [...]

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Sunday 13th September

Day Four
After a pretty flat day three that involved a lot of digging and even more sweating, day four started on a very positive note.  Almost immediately the archaeologists unearthed a 32 cm piece of wood in trench 1 exactly where the GPR told us to dig.  The wood was found with a large number [...]

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Saturday 12th September

Day Three
Wow, what an extremely hot day it has been today in Corscadden Park!  Today there was an enormous amount of digging in the hot sun.  We had twelve fantastic, enthusiastic volunteers come along today to help out with our QU students. 
  
Everyone worked really hard to clean up the trenches and explore our newly found [...]

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Friday 11th September

Day Two
The reddish-brown fill was going to defeat us so it was time to call in the excavator.  Rick from MBRC was fantastic, a real artist with the excavator.  Finally after removing an enormous amount of fill, complete with huge blocks of concrete, we were able to locate the grey sandy soil of the original [...]

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Thursday 10th September

Day One
What a fantastic first day on the dig, the team has done a fantastic job to remove all the turf and start our venture to find the brick kiln.
    
Today we had students from Redcliffe Special School to give us a helping hand and they were all great, hard-working, enthusiastic kids who managed to find a [...]

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The hunt for the brick kiln coming soon

Only three more days to go before UQ archaeologists start work on the suspected convict brick kiln site in Corscadden Park.  Thursday will see ground broken and the beginning of a six day excavation that will include University students, primary and secondary students from local schools, volunteers from all over the greater Brisbane area, and Redcliffe [...]

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