It is the end of Week 3…..and we began the day with a Site Tour by Mike. There was so much to say that this took appreciably longer than the allotted 45 minutes…..Mike got a little anxious at valuable digging time lost, but as he was the one doing the talking….!
Very exciting…..all of Tony and Tom’s hard work beneath the East-West Roman street is reaping its reward: a perfectly preserved clay floored Iron Age round house, mounded up beneath the street gravels.
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Looking east: quite possibly the most beautiful cross-section of a Roman street you will ever see! Congratulations Edoardo and team!
And look! The gravel underfloor pinning of Natalie’s glorious early Roman building revealed in all its beauty:
Yet more visitors! Sunday is always a very sociable day – and today was no exception when the Silchester Friends were treated to a professorial guided tour.
Sunday is also the day when the Supervisors give their teams a tour of their areas.
And….some of the best news of all! We have our first sign of a flint Roman wall foundation in Insula III. First sign of our Bath House?
And…well…what every well-equipped Field School needs…..a golf buggy!
As the sun went down on our golf buggy, the new arrivals for week 4 began to tentatively arrive….12 newcomers to add to the mix! A cooler week forecast as we head into the second half of the dig….