{"id":667,"date":"2015-03-24T18:29:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T18:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/?p=667"},"modified":"2015-03-24T18:29:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T18:29:40","slug":"our-biggest-trench-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2015\/03\/24\/our-biggest-trench-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Our biggest trench ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A visitor to our site today asked James G whether we were archaeologists or installing a gas pipe. The confusion is due to our new bigger and better trench. It&#8217;s 100m long and 4m wide.<\/p>\n<p>The landowner came over to see what we&#8217;ve been up to and gave his blessing (many thanks!) to the new, enlarged trench, Most of the work so far has been due to <a href=\"http:\/\/groundworksinsomerset.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Grinte<\/a>r and his digger, which has been working flat out.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s early days but archaeological features are showing up (some where the geophysics say they should be, others don&#8217;t appear on the magnetometry).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/ruthko\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7643\/16731104060_c3d394bfee.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1142\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One feature in particular contained a large and fresh fragment from a Roman jar and Andy began excavating a narrow ditch. This ditch we think might have been part of an enclosure around the villa and is an interesting feature. It&#8217;s got a number of fills, one of which is very charcoal rich and another contains sherds of a slightly micaceous greyware Roman period jar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/qQ4pyw\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7611\/16296418834_f6603ff0f3.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1151\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chris, Hayley and James H continued trowelling, this time defining a large &#8216;blob&#8217;, which might be a number of intercutting features.<\/p>\n<p>An excellent day with lots achieved and lots to do tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A visitor to our site today asked James G whether we were archaeologists or installing a gas pipe. The confusion is due to our new bigger and better trench. It&#8217;s 100m long and 4m wide. The landowner came over to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2015\/03\/24\/our-biggest-trench-ever\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excavations-2015","category-finds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}