Monthly Archives: September 2015

Antonia writes: “On the Roman site at Hatcliffe my colleagues and I were given the opportunity to participate in doing a geophysical survey of two areas of the site. These were to the north and west of the field in … Continue reading →

Excavation of the large pit feature (that showed as an anomaly on the geophysical plot) is now well underway. Below an upper layer of mixed chalk and soil is a dark silty fill. Oyster shells are present in this feature. … Continue reading →

Our big anomaly is now largely exposed. It is a massive pit filled with dark soil containing copper working slag and other finds … but we will not know its function till we have excavated more of it. Ash continued … Continue reading →

A major step forward for us as we opened our first trench this year at the Binbrook site today. Our aim was to examine a large circular ‘anomaly’ found during the geophysical survey in the previous season. This was the … Continue reading →