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.
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….