{"id":115,"date":"2016-09-13T08:29:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T07:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/bourneroman\/?p=115"},"modified":"2016-09-17T10:53:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T09:53:33","slug":"day-7-at-the-roman-site-on-the-nailbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/bourneroman\/2016\/09\/13\/day-7-at-the-roman-site-on-the-nailbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"Day Seven at the Roman site on the Nailbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve writes:<\/strong> At Trench B along with the two articulated bone groups there is much archaeology to investigate including wall foundations for the villa building being examined in that area. It will take a deal more work to define the cut features and spreads.<\/p>\n

At Trench A the picture is now very clear. We have located the wall foundations in the locations the radar survey had predicted. A mortared flint foundation had been set within a shuttered slot to create the base of the main room within our trench. This was a heated room with a cavity floor (hypocaust) set on mortared tile piers (pilae) across which thick floor tiles were laid. A small apse or niche on the southern side has a base of Roman concrete. Like one at the villa at Abbey Farm, Minster, excavated by the Kent Archaeological Society, it is markedly small suggesting a gesture towards classical architecture rather than a space for dining on couches. A question to resolve soon is whether there is a second heated room to the east of our main room or whether this is the furnace area for the heating. The team are pressing on.<\/p>\n

Trench A: progress so far.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Trench A: a pilae the once supported the floor forming a cavity for the hypocaust system is carefully being revealed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Trench A: a second pilae can be seen emerging from the trench section.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Trench A: a large feature external to the building that may be a pit or well.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Trench A: this heap of flint nodules and loose building material keeps growing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve writes: At Trench B along with the two articulated bone groups there is much archaeology to investigate including wall foundations for the villa building … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[168095],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/bourneroman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/bourneroman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/bourneroman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/bourneroman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/bourneroman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/bourneroman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/bourneroman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/bourneroman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/bourneroman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/bourneroman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}