This month we have done our first archaeological excavation at one of our landholdings. Our previous geophysical surveys have shown there to be remains of a farmstead near Brookland and we have carried out a small excavation to see if we can date the building. Early signs show the building may be a couple of hundred years older than we had previously thought. One of the finds was a spur thought to date from the 17^thCentury (image above).