{"id":197,"date":"2016-09-17T08:38:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T07:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/bourneroman\/?p=197"},"modified":"2016-09-26T16:30:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T15:30:23","slug":"day-twelve-at-the-roman-site-on-the-nailbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/bourneroman\/2016\/09\/17\/day-twelve-at-the-roman-site-on-the-nailbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"Day Twelve at the Roman site on the Nailbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hana writes:<\/strong> Some of the most exceptional features on the site were uncovered in Trench A, such as the deep feature Andrew and I have been digging out suspected to be a well; this lies in the southeast corner of the Trench.<\/p>\n

Many oyster shells have come from this feature. By Trench B, Henry and I assisted Lloyd using GNSS last week to map the potential foundations of the Villa in order to highlight its true scale.<\/p>\n

The afternoon I spent cleaning finds with Kate and Monica gave me a better understanding of post excavation processes as well as material culture, reinforcing my interest in experimental archaeology and artefact replication. Environmental archaeology is also an area I would like to work in in the future; this was reinforced after the area survey of the present environment we undertook at the beginning of last week.<\/p>\n

Sally writes:<\/strong> As blog watchers will know a major part of our finds has been box-flue tile from the Roman central-heating system; and here are more ‘keying’ designs that have come to light which we have ‘named’:<\/p>\n

“Alhambra”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
“Pi”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
“Choppy sea”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
A beautiful sherd of pottery, probably from the Nene Valley (Peterborough).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
A large chunk of painted Roman wall plaster has also bee recovered from the pattern within the rooms.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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