ARCHAEOLOGY students at Seevic College have spent the last week preparing for their second year studies by taking part in the college’s second annual excavation.

Following the success of last year’s dig where students discovered evidence of prehistoric habitation dating back 5,000 years, the class of five were keen to see what else was concealed in the Thundersley college’s grounds.

Excavating ten centimetre layers at a time, students conducted a test pit excavation covering a one metre square spot within their chosen area - a wooded area at the back of the campus, located in Runnymede Chase.

Student Georga-Marie Hooton, 18, from Basildon, said: “It has been a really good way of bringing what we have learnt in class to practice.

Fellow student Chloe Holbrough-Beckwith, 17, from Rochford, added: “The excavation has helped me to learn how to work with a trowel, and what angles work best.”

Jamie Spracklen, tutor of archaeology at the college, said: “This land had never been uncovered before, so it was exciting to see what we were going to expose in a location that may have been an ancient field boundary. So far, we have found evidence of occupation and what may be a pebbled pathway.”