A TOWN UNEARTHED – 10th – 23rdth July 2011 After removing the top soil from the courtyard area during which I very wisely went on holiday for a fortnight, a large scattering of stones was revealed. Much speculation on whether they were the foundation of a wooden building . As we started exploring and carefully trowelling down exposing the stones and looking for post holes, we found tufa – for the ignorance club (a type of rock that looks like
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A Town Unearthed – 2nd and 3rd July 2011 Saturday – Beautiful, sunny and hot day with a slight breeze. Back from holiday to find the Villa fully exposed and the diggers well into the courtyard area. The ground was like iron and after a miserable try at trowelling I gave up and joined the outreach team to look after visitors. The cabin has been kitted out with information for visitors and exhibits from the dig. Our leader now has
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Saturday 4th June Arrived late at the site to find everyone digging and barrowing and the spoil heap getting bigger. Have had to give up on barrowing and have left it to the fit and tough. The fit are hammering in to the mini cliff on the north side of the dig and I have joined the lesser Trojans clearing up the spaces between the walls. The plastic is exposed and the shapes of the walls can now be seen. We
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Saturday May 28th Here we are back again at the East Cliff unveiling the Villa, but not before we had to clear away all those noxious weeds that had a lovely time growing on the backfill from last year. The ground is like iron. The men and a few tough ladies chopped away at them and others gathered them up and made a pile just outside the boundary of the site. The rest of us were putting up the fences
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A Town Unearthed – March 12th & 13th 2011 A group of very hardy volunteers assembled this week end in The Bayle, Folkestone to start working on test pits in residents’ gardens. We have also started a pit in the garden of the Bayle Pond. We were very careful not to spoil the gardens although when it rains it is difficult not to tread the ground down. Visitors turn up from time to time to ask questions and to tell
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A Town Unearthed - Jan – Feb 2011 Processing the finds When we are digging up at the Villa Site, all the finds, after being washed, are put into one bag and what we are doing during the processing is re-sort them into categories which are – Pottery, Bones, Shells, Flints and miscellaneous items like pieces of metal and things we don’t recognise which could be anything. The could be anything things are then checked by Andrew who says that’s
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