Digging carries on apace and interesting finds are popping out of the ground as we go along. A piece of pot turned up with some of the potters mark on it – ERT – immediately christened BERT by the diggers. However our leader told me how to look him up on the internet and he turns out ot be SM [ERTU] CCOS – The diggers now have another variation but I leave that to your imagination. Another piece of
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A Town Unearthed - 22nd August 2011 The history of our Villa is getting quite interesting and complicated. Once we had removed the fallen walling from the courtyard we found underneath a large area of Roman roof tiles. No Classis Britannica in this deposit, but we took out twenty five sacks of the stuff. I can see plenty of work for the processors over the winter. This area is like layer cake that has broken up and the layers have
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A TOWN UNEARTHED – 31ST AUGUST 2011 Lurking underneath all those courtyard cobbles and stones was a layer of GREEN clay waiting to make our lives a misery. Just scrape off that layer over here or over there and expose the GREEN layer was the order of the day.. Thank you Fairy Godmother for sending some rain at decent intervals. The layers were baked hard and because the GREEN was broken up and had been trampled upon (not by us)
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