As the team finally settle into a regular routine on site, we all enjoyed a day of discovery. With the last of the machine work done yesterday, the team now set about working out how best to continue.

At the start of the day, Elliot oversaw Antonia, James S and Henry as they cleaned up the section in the North-Eastern corner of the trench before trowelling back the loose and trying to locate more features.

Meanwhile, James led Chris and Charlotte (joining us from the University of Trinity St David) in analysing what was have been a robbed out (or previosuly excavated) wall on the Eastern side of the trench, and managed to pull out an impressive Roman tile.

On the other side of the trench, Hayley was in charge while Dan and Imogen worked hard to locate what could be a very interesting context.

Holly-Ann continued in her wall hunting endeavours and was able to follow the base course of another of the villa’s walls.

We were visited by the Western Gazette and made the BBC news website – fame at last.

The major success of the day was establishing exactly where the trench was in relation to Leonard Hayward’s plan of the villa. We know where we are! Onwards and downwards!

After a long day’s work, the team enjoyed fajitas for tea, prepared by James I and Kevin. Alas, we made a mistake with quantities and pizza needed to be ordered to make up the shortfall.