Day 12 - is that a floor I see before me?

In typical time team fashion, with just minutes to spare before the end of the day, a line of flagstones emerged from the dust in trench 3, in the area between the top robbed walls. This delighted Sue and Beth who had found practically nothing all day. A hard surface, maybe the lane came up beside the drain at the west end of the trench.

Trench 4 benefited from some heavy duty cleaning by Rodger, and Peter was able to see clearly to draw the features.

Trench 5 has uncovered the lane surface and now work is going on to see how the sides were constructed. It is likely that there is some sort of revertment at each side.

Finds continue to be construction material with a small amount of pottery which may have come from manuring of the fields.

Callum Richardson called in with a picture of a reconstruction of a pipe found yesterday with unique foot. This has two square marks impressed on the foot which will help with identification later.

The picture shows another major aspect of the dig - group discussion on the days work, with the help of some tongue loosening potion.

Diggers today - Jemma, Rodger, Charlene, Ed, Sue, Jay, Peter S, Peter H, Dave, Debbie, Mike, Jan, Bethan, Ed, David, Richard