{"id":826,"date":"2016-08-04T23:29:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T22:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/?p=826"},"modified":"2016-08-04T23:29:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T22:29:35","slug":"onwards-and-downwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2016\/08\/04\/onwards-and-downwards\/","title":{"rendered":"Onwards and Downwards"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, James led Chris and Charlotte (joining us from the University of Trinity St David<\/a>) 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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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

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We were visited by the Western Gazette<\/a>\u00a0and made the BBC news website<\/a> – fame at last.<\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

After a long day\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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