Today the site activities were being geared towards completing features by the end of this week. It can be felt around the site that the previously inexperienced students have now got into the rhythm of excavating and recording their features effectively.
In area ‘B’ an impressive pit, which measured 2.5 metres in depth had a complete penannular brooch at the base. There were also defined markings on the chalk’s edge in the pit that were possibly created by our ancestors digging the pit with a pick. In addition, the environmental team uncovered part of a brooch from a soil sample from the skeletal remains of ‘Bruce’ in area ‘A.’
An eye catching artefact unearthed in a pit near the Roman platform in area ‘A’ was a blue Roman glass bead. There was also a grinding stone, possibly a saddle quern, which would have been used to grind grain and other foodstuffs, or perhaps used to grind up other types of materials.
Lauren and Zoe
Day 21: Top left, clockwise– blue glass bead, penannular brooch from the base of a pit, iron brooch from the fill of a grave, recording progressing as digging nears completion, and an oval grindstone, possibly a quern stone.