Sunday 31st October. KP, AR and 10 volunteers Light rain in the morning. Completed back-filling of the courtyard area. Sorted out finds from the excavation. Monday 1st November. KP, BC, RH and 3 volunteers General tidy of site. Covered villa walls with plastic sheeting. Continued checking paperwork. Did final sorting of finds. Dry all day. Tuesday 2nd November. KP, BC, RH and 5 volunteers Used machine to back fill area of the villa and tidy up remaining
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Sunday 24th October. KP, RH, AR and 15 volunteers Continued digging below Room 50. Back-filled the North-East area with ash and levelled with soil. Did finds washing on site. Dry and sunny all day. Monday 25th October. KP, RH and 8 volunteers Re-turfed and levelled Trench 1. Continued recording in Room 50 – took soil sample. Made notes on modern repairs to the Roman walls. Sunny and dry all day. Tuesday 26th October. KP, BC, RH and 7
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Sunday 17th October. KP, AR and 9 volunteers Completed excavation work in both Trench 1 and the North-East area. Continued digging below Rooms 50 and 51. Did finds washing on site. Final site tour for local residents (attended by 19). Dry all day (just). Monday 18th October. KP, BC, RH, MG and 7 volunteers Completed recording work in Trench 1 and started to back-fill. Completed excavation work and most of the recording in the North-East area. Visit from
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Sunday 10th October. KP, AR, RH and 19 volunteers Continued digging in the North-East area. Back-filled Room 53 with ash (by hand). Continued digging below Room 50. Did finds washing on site. Dry all day and sunny. Monday 11th October. KP, BC, RH and 10 volunteers Back-filled Room 52 with ash (by hand). Did recording and drew sections. Continued checking paper work. Did finds washing on site. Site visit from Ian Coulson. Dry but very windy. Tuesday 12th
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Sunday 3rd October. KP, AR, LH and 15 volunteers Continued digging early clay deposits below Rooms 52 and 53. Did finds washing on site. Rained off at 2:15. Wrote report on progress and e-mailed it to ATU staff. Monday 4th October. KP, BC and 8 volunteers Site very wet from yesterday. Recorded and photographed details of villa corridor wall then started to back-fill it. Continued digging below Room 53. More pre-historic flints recovered. Did finds washing on site.
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Sunday 26th September. KP, RH and 16 volunteers Continued digging below Rooms 52 and 53. Continued digging in the North-East area. Photographed chalk floor in Room 50 and removed it. Diggers rained off at 2.15 but did finds washing on site a.m. Site visit from Council for British Archaeology (SE) conference members. Rained all afternoon – abandoned site at 3.45 – fed up. Monday 27th September. KP, BC, RH, MG and 20 volunteers Continued digging in the North-East
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