Conditions:- warm, sunny, gusts of wind.
Ok.. I am digging the SE corner of Trench 6 with Kat and Neil, a very rich trench in terms of finds and in terms of interpretations too.
Let’s start with Bryn and Bernard’s interpretation:-
A plunge pool of a bathhouse – later thought to be too big.
Then described as “deep room” – well, yes, I can vouch it is deep. But doesn’t really tell us any more :confused:
I find a piece of wall plaster with a sea shell impressed into it – we find 5 large pieces of a hippocamp decorated bowl (half horse half sea monster)
Is it a large plunge pool.
Don’t know – OK, now we call it “room 1”
Me, Neil and Kat find the base of a glass unguentarium (look it up, I had to )
Ooooh, back to plunge pool or another component of a bath suite. I wonder what it will be tomorrow
The base of the unguentarium was a wonderful find but later on, was almost rivalled by a single large green glass bead out of the same context.
It is terrible really as all the lovely pot bases and rims that usually you would rave about really are a secondary consideration. That how good this “plunge pool”, “deep room”, “room one”, “my, Kat’s and Neil’s SE corner” is. Last day of the week, tomorrow, I’ll take some more piccys of the finds and post them Monday.