{"id":689,"date":"2015-03-31T00:30:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T23:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/?p=689"},"modified":"2015-03-31T00:30:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T23:30:07","slug":"resistance-in-flu-tile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2015\/03\/31\/resistance-in-flu-tile\/","title":{"rendered":"Resistance in Flu Tile!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marked the first day on site for the new students, which started with the basics and a safety briefing before beginning a mass trowelling of the site. Shortly after, Sue and Brian, volunteers from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssarg.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">SSARG<\/a> arrived on site and joined in trowelling &#8211; meanwhile at the northern end of the site Hayley and James finished planning a feature.<\/p>\n<p>Chris and Hayley had continued working on their features from last week, finding a fragment of a hypocaust flu tile. It is most likely to have come from the Villa, and is likely akin to the tile given to us by <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2015\/03\/22\/setting-up\/\" target=\"_blank\">a neighbour last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/rQgAfb<\/i><\/p>\n<p>After morning break the students and volunteers were assigned to features that had been revealed during trowelling, some sherds of pottery were found throughout the day \u2013 a highlight being a fragment of medieval green glazed pottery found by James H. Samara, Tilly and Holly-Ann took on the mammoth task of removing a large layer in the northern end of the trench, whilst Chris and Josh continued to remove slot from a ditch started on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The new starters arrived back at camp in high spirits, but they\u2019ll be aching in the morning!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marked the first day on site for the new students, which started with the basics and a safety briefing before beginning a mass trowelling of the site. Shortly after, Sue and Brian, volunteers from SSARG arrived on site and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2015\/03\/31\/resistance-in-flu-tile\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1324,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excavations-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","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\/1324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}