21 February 2001: We are re-locating to URL http://www.nendrum.utvinternet.com
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10 January 2001: Minor text editing.
12 September 2000: An air photo from 1989, showing the mill pond area was added. Some minor text editing
August 2000: There is an outer line of seaweed-covered stones across the bay (see 1989 air photo) which appears to have been the line of a dam enclosing a larger body of water. Timber posts, parts of wattle fences and large horizontal timbers have been uncovered at the southeast end of this line during the 2000 season. This is an area which has yielded large amounts of timber, clay and organic fill, but few other artifacts. Interpretation of the structure is still far from straight forward.
26 December 1999: Email address changed to max@mba.dnet.co.uk
14 December: BIG NEWS - Dendrochronology has yielded dates for timbers which appear to be parts of earlier versions of the tide mill constructed in timber.
Several of the timbers tested were felled in 617 AD.
One re-used timber post, which lacked sapwood, was from a tree which had been growing in 480 AD. but the tree may not have been felled until early in the 6th Century.
20 November: The trenches which were opened through the summer months of 1999 have now been backfilled and little remains to be seen above ground.
There is an outer line of seaweed-covered stones across the bay which may be investigated next year.
24 October: Explanatory diagrams added to show how the system worked.
21 October: Pictures of the inside of the penstock added to the penstock page. Font colours changed. A link has been added for the Ulster Archaeological Society.
30 September: A BBC camera crew visited the dig yesterday. It will be broadcast in mid November we understand.
29 September: The assumed level of the bed of the millpond changed, based on evidence from the penstock entry point.
25 September: A new piece entitled "How many tides?" was added to 'A last dig'.
22 September 1999: A new page was added "A last dig"and a new panoramic photo added to the Penstock page.
The first of these pages were posted in August 1999.
