Some months after the 'Legion of the Damned' fieldwork adventure, the Rubicon office team was treated to a Christmas site visit to the excavations at Caherduggan Castle. The group included experienced former field archaeologists, people who had not seen a field in years and more recent converts to the comforts of office work.

The weather was suitably dreadful: freezing cold, with near-hurricane conditions forecast. The outcome of the trip was recorded in a series of photographs.

Some of the team took time to adjust to strange clothing additions such as hi-vis jackets and oversized shoes called rigger boots

The team gaze nervously over the water-filled moat and revetment

The staff keep their minds off the near-Arctic conditions as supervisor Steve describes the finds from the well

Steve allows some of the better-behaved members of the party to look at finds in the site cabin

It becomes all too much for some, who look back longingly towards the office