Pete turns up to finally get the BT Broadband set up (we thought). So he gets out the laptop, connects the CD-ROM, fine. Plugs in the BT supplied Broadband modem…….”new hardware detected….you do not have sufficient privileges to add this hardware”. I stay out of the way. He contacts the IT support group (who are outsourced) he doesn’t seem very happy when he explains that although EH want to use my line to access their servers the IT outsource people haven’t approved it and technically my house isn’t an EH site so they are not happy to provide support and won’t give Pete privileges to add the modem. All very political but I’m sure it’ll all sort itself out.
Chatting on site to Dawn Irving, the Community Education Officer, and she passed on the information that at 01:00 this morning the site was nighthawked – the security guard chased them off the site but this morning it was found that a complete hypocaust box-flue tile that was being painstakingly excavated had been ripped out and was gone. So first off there had to be an assessment of the trench to see what else had been disturbed.
Bryn and Bernard are on site today, it’s good to see them both again and catch up with Bryn.
P.S. IT specialist is coming up to Swindon from Portsmouth to type in the password for the privileges to install the broadband modem. They couldn’t tell Pete the password, else they’d have to shoot him. 
Neil and Kat
At work in the “deep room”
EH’s “latest” update -Week 2 Day 2
We continued to clean Trench 6, working towards our first overall trench photographs. The weather was kind and they were taken in early afternoon. What we thought yesterday might be an east-west wall on the northern side of the trench is looking increasing like it might be a path across the open area between Buildings 1 and 2 – on further cleaning the surface of the stone looks as if it has been worn by the passage of feet over a considerable period of time. To the south of it we are beginning to define what may be a later building overlying Building 2, or possibly a room that was added to it late on in the Roman occupation of the site and served to extend the structure out into the area between the buildings. To the south-east of the road scrape Bernard Phillips’ and Bryn Walters’ possible cold plunge bath appears to have the remnants of plaster on three walls, but is looking less like a cold plunge as it is probably too large, approx 4m x 4m with a 2m square extension to the north-west. We were fortunate to have the benefit of having Bernard and Bryn visit today and their comments on the site as now revealed, and their commentary on their excavations have been extremely helpful.
We returned to Trench 7 and have started to plan and record what we can see prior to excavation.