On our third day at site the team were visited by a media team from BBC Points West who caught us in our element during excavation. We’re not sure when the interview will be broadcast. This week with a bit of luck!

The day began with James and Andy overseeing the machine work whilst Elliot and Hayley supervised Dan, James I, Kevin, Imogen, Antonia and Chris as they worked on tidying up our sections.

After that the team set about trowelling back across the trench to try and reveal some of the more interesting colour changes in the soil, allowing us to get a better idea of the archaeology of the villa.

Holly-Ann spent most of the day excavating more of the villa walls that we were able to uncover.

Meanwhile, Ski returned to site and was assisted in his metal detecting by Charlotte.

We managed to discover some interesting finds throughout the day, with Ski locating several more coins and some more small finds for our team to wrap their heads around.

One of our more baffling finds is what James has identified as a possible stone basin.

The team enjoyed corned beef hash prepared by James S and Henry for tea after a hard day’s work.

Last night, James dug deep and worked hard with the University Press Office.  However, the resulting headline wasn’t quite what he expected. C’est la vie…

All in all the team had an incredibly productive day, and are looking forward to getting properly stuck into digging tomorrow..

Special mention goes to Dan, who came home with the most impressive burns in the shortest amount of time!