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No.1 Grid peg from above. It's amazing what you can do with bits of wood, a nail and some string...
No. 2 A trusty shovel for all that back filling.
No. 3 Mud and more mud...nothing quite like it for cooling the blood.
No. 4 A cow of course! Don't you find cows in your trench every morning?
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Photographs © Jonathan Bateman 1997