A welcome day in the sun, although by 3 pm the temperature was dropping rapidly and we were ready to go home! We took out the brick/rubble cut and a mortar/pebble/stone surface […]
DIG – DAY 9, SUNNY SIDE UP
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DIG DAY 8 – YOUNG ARCHAEOLOGISTS GET STUCK IN
Today we welcomed young people from Nottingham YAC to the dig. They worked brilliantly, excavating, washing finds and drawing. They found some lovely pottery, including a medieval piece.
Painted Roman wall-plaster workshop
Zoe and Jo lead a workshop on painted Roman wall-plaster: what it is, how it’s made, cleaning, recording and conserving it. We then got on with recording our finds from the Vicars’ […]
DIG – DAY 7
13th November 2019. Cleaned up to pebble surface and around rubble cut. Took measurements and drew a plan of the latest contexts. Main finds were a lot of mortar and rubble, with […]
DIG -DAY 6
The team worked hard today, despite the raw wind and occasional shower. Brick and tile infill being revealed, with alot of lime mortar/plaster as well, looks at first sight like a dump […]
