{"id":848,"date":"2016-08-10T20:30:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T19:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/?p=848"},"modified":"2016-08-10T20:30:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T19:30:39","slug":"a-special-visitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2016\/08\/10\/a-special-visitor\/","title":{"rendered":"A special visitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we had the pleasure of a visit from Barbara Sutton \u2013 no\u00a0other than Leonard Hayward\u2019s daughter, who told us about\u00a0her memories of the excavation from her childhood.\u00a0It was great to meet Barbara and to have a connection with the previous excavator!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96510663@N05\/28791910592\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/8853\/28791910592_146739a61e.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the trench, Elliot and Antonia took levels for the plan Antonia had made yesterday while Hayley commanded Kevin, James I, James S, Henry and Imogen with an iron fist to clean up the northern side of the trench.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96510663@N05\/28592289820\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/8608\/28592289820_35126eb7e8.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Holly worked hard to define and clean up a section of the villa\u2019s wall. This involved removing some of Hayward&#8217;s backfill and discovering &#8211; wait for it &#8211; a plastic cup and a glass bottle. Neither were Roman&#8230; but rubbish left over from the previous digging team (!).<\/p>\n<p>Later in the day, Elliot was tasked with clearing away some of the brown rubble layer from the South-Western end of the trench and was able to discover a clear cut feature \u2013 almost certainly the visible remains of one of Hayward\u2019s trenches.<\/p>\n<p>On the North side of the trench the team made a huge discovery \u2013 genuine, bona fide Roman hypocaust and\u00a0floor within\u00a0what appears to be an apsidal shaped room with heated flooring.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t long after that Hawkeye Hayley spotted another tiny coin in the ground only a couple of metres away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96510663@N05\/28791798272\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/8153\/28791798272_78af794127_z.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>James I was then teamed up with Pete to do some drawing and take some levels of the western side of the trench.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96510663@N05\/28896458045\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/8134\/28896458045_00e75b342f.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the afternoon we also had a visit from Brian and Moira, representatives of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yalhs.org.uk\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">Yeovil Archaeological and Local History Society<\/span><\/u><\/a>. They were given a guided tour of the site by James. Moira also revealed why Leonard Hayward was nicknamed &#8216;Polly&#8217;. Apparently it was because he started every grammar school archaeological society meeting with &#8216;Put the kettle on&#8217;&#8230; Hence <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/learning\/schoolradio\/subjects\/earlylearning\/nurserysongs\/P-T\/polly_kettle_on\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">&#8216;Polly put the kettle on&#8217;<\/span><\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The team returned home to corned beef\u00a0 hash prepared by Dan and Chris and are looking forward to a visit from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historicengland.org.uk\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">Historic England <\/span><\/u><\/a>tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we had the pleasure of a visit from Barbara Sutton \u2013 no\u00a0other than Leonard Hayward\u2019s daughter, who told us about\u00a0her memories of the excavation from her childhood.\u00a0It was great to meet Barbara and to have a connection with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2016\/08\/10\/a-special-visitor\/\">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":[30,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excavations-2016","category-the-villa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","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=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":849,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}