Post by YAT on May 4, 2010 15:11:21 GMT 1
Finally we got a good bit of fine weather - so much so that the site quickly became too dry in places!!
We continued to find really juicy organic pits! - The fill of this was really stinky and full of bits so will be a great environmental sample
We also started to dig the rest of the grave in which we found the Shale bracelet - yorkdig.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=siteupdates&action=display&thread=373 The pot you can see in the picture was over the top of the coffin.....
When we started to clean out the insides you could see another pot. There are also bones and other bits inside so we will update you when we have finished the work on it.....
Below the pot we found a complete glass bottle and you can also see some little bits in the background........
These turned out to be beads made of glass or shale so we sieved all the backfill of the grave......
Here are some of the 299 beads that we found!
So a really nice Roman burial, except there was virtually no bone surviving. Hopefully there will be more to be seen in the summer
We continued to find really juicy organic pits! - The fill of this was really stinky and full of bits so will be a great environmental sample
We also started to dig the rest of the grave in which we found the Shale bracelet - yorkdig.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=siteupdates&action=display&thread=373 The pot you can see in the picture was over the top of the coffin.....
When we started to clean out the insides you could see another pot. There are also bones and other bits inside so we will update you when we have finished the work on it.....
Below the pot we found a complete glass bottle and you can also see some little bits in the background........
These turned out to be beads made of glass or shale so we sieved all the backfill of the grave......
Here are some of the 299 beads that we found!
So a really nice Roman burial, except there was virtually no bone surviving. Hopefully there will be more to be seen in the summer
