Usual parade of rain coat on/off/on/off but we got about 90% of a day in.
It was fun to have a full day of actual archaeology, although I did offer to pitch in with the tedious backfill clearing if extra hands were needed. And stuff was found.
Roman Glass. You can still see through it.
Bits of pottery. Sometimes they pop out of the ground, sometimes they are embedded in the layer you are supposed to go down to. I don't mind leaving the bits in situ. They look happy there and probably just appreciate some light, fresh air and a quick clean by the recurrent rain showers.
On occasion I have something that has to be carefully considered before posting. Anything metal for instance. The concern is that "night hawks", a contemptable species of nocturnal metal detectorists will hear about nice finds and show up after dark and pilfer. But....
This thin green line in the soil is copper alloy. When you are troweling away in dull greyish brown dirt and suddenly spot something the color of a motel swimming pool, well, you've got copper alloy, aka bronze.
I feel OK about posting this because it was the thinnest bit of copper alloy foil. No value, probably not even enough for a shady plunderer to detect.
It was in any case removed with great care and sent off to be studied. Who knows, there might be something inscribed on it in spidery letters too small for my over 60 eyes to spot.
There was something going on over at the other end of the site that caused a bit of excitement. I suspect The Trust will do a special posting on this find, so I'll just put up a distance shot.
If you can figure out from this angle exactly what is going on that is really rather remarkable, well, good for you. Otherwise I'll update this when the Official social media has had their reveal.........
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