{"id":999,"date":"2017-08-03T20:35:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T19:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/?p=999"},"modified":"2017-08-03T20:35:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T19:35:42","slug":"thirty-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2017\/08\/03\/thirty-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirty Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today has been our penultimate day on site. Only two more sleeps until our return to Newcastle!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/X8Jb5L\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4410\/36187066332_cbfc118393.jpg\" alt=\"Josh\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not much digging happened today. It&#8217;s the end of the excavation, so most of the time was spent undertaking the last bits of vital recording. This included Charlie and Chris drawing a section (in mirror world and then the right way around) and Annetta and Antonia also drawing a section. James P and Meg undertook to draw a plan of the extension, James G and Josh were also drawing plans. Andy spent much of the day photographing the mosaic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/X8Jfes\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4411\/36187080292_21683179f8.jpg\" alt=\"Lufton Mosaic\" width=\"500\" height=\"435\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Andy&#8217;s picture of the mosaic. At the far left you can just make out the arcs of tessera that mark the nose of another fish&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It was also a day that saw quite a few visitors. In the morning, Michaela, an old school friend of James&#8217;s, came to see the mosaic with her daughter and niece. In the afternoon we were visited by half a dozen of our friends from SSARG, including Nigel and Liz who carried out the geophysics with James G back in 2009. Finally, we were visited by Pat Witts, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barpublishing.com\/a-mosaic-menagerie.html\"><em>A Mosaic Menagerie: creatures of land, sea and sky in Romano-British mosaics<\/em><\/a>. She was thrilled to see our fish and even more excited to see that we had excavated part of &#8216;Panel C&#8217;. This part of the mosaic was poorly recorded in the previous excavations and it is apparent that not only does one of our fish have a turned head but just the tip of another survives. This expands the number of fish on the Lufton mosaic from 29 to 30! Not bad for two weeks in Somerset.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/WMyy8w\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4405\/35958859460_caf08e7711_c.jpg\" alt=\"Josh\" width=\"450\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pat Witts photographing the fish<\/p>\n<p>Finally, it&#8217;s worth recording that back at base Josh found a four-leaf clover. May his (and our) luck continue!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/X8JcjQ\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4361\/36187070512_3cbbea5b56_c.jpg\" alt=\"Josh\" width=\"450\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today has been our penultimate day on site. Only two more sleeps until our return to Newcastle! Not much digging happened today. 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