Scrub and tree removal has continued throughout the summer. The site now looks markedly different from our first visit late last year.  The area behind the British front line has now been cleared opening up previously unseen vistas. The work has exposed a section of communication trench (Quémart Street), further small craters and a sap leading to an observation or listening post on a crater lip.
May 2011. View along the British front line towards Lochnagar crater on the horizon.
One of the two largest craters on site has now been cleared. Under the supervision of Iain McHenry a group of volunteers exposed one of the Glory Hole’s most impressive surface relics of mine warfare.  Archival investigation continues into the formation of the crater; at present it is unknown if it was formed by French, British or German mines or a combination of multiple blows.
Looking back over the British lines from the crater lip towards Tara and Usna Hills bisected by the main road to Albert.
Clearance work in the crater nearing completion - 29 August 2011.
The cleared crater with Tara Hill on the horizon. 15 September 2011.
As well as the installation of new fencing, time has also been devoted to the organisation of the October excavations. Updates of progress during that week will be posted in due course.
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