We finish here tomorrow (Friday). We went to Troy on Sunday. The weather was superb. On the way down we visited a memorial to the French Battleship Bouvet that was sunk on 18 March 1915. Over 600 of her crew perished that day and the Turks put up a memorial to them. We also visited Fort Dardanos, where one of the batteries that repelled the combined British and French Fleet was situated. I reckon the only way to visit a site such as Troy is with your own ...

Kathy arrived on Wednesday evening and has quickly settled in. She landed at 6am and was on a bus to the peninsula 90 minutes later having passed through Immigration and Customs. I think that must be some sort of a record. I cannot quite believe it but Thursday was basically our last day of fieldwork. In the last four years we have basically covered the whole front line of the Anzac Battle Site from Russells Top and the Nek down to Chatham's Post in the south...

We spent Monday around the New Zealand Outposts at the north western part of the battlefield, past the Commemorative Site and fairly close to North Beach. The New Zealand Trail up to Chunuk Bair starts/finishes in this area. Our Kiwi team member had a real spring in his step throughout the day. The views from the tops of the outposts overlooking the Aegean Sea and the island of Gokceada are quite spectacular. It was a perfect day for our work, which was prett...

We had three full days in the field from Thursday to Saturday. We surveyed a fairly large area to the south of Lone Pine and along a place called Holly Ridge, which was part of the Allied Front Line. The amount of excavation that was done in 1915 is truly mind boggling and it's almost impossible to make head or tail of what exactly you're looking at - other than for some of the main trenches. It gets even more complicated near roads where there has obviously b...

We spent all of Monday and Tuesday fossicking around a couple of spurs that head south from the Lone Pine Plateau. One, Snipers Ridge, which then turns into the Knife Edge was the Turkish front line facing the Allies who were on Silt Spur, which we surveyed last year. The second was Weir Ridge, which is one back (east) from Snipers. We marked lots of trenches and other positions, and found quite a few relics. The number of bricks and stones that had obviously...