Finds round-up

Posted by Susan Greaney

Over the past four weeks, the students have found a lot of pottery which will help with dating and perhaps in future we’ll be able to use ceramic residue analysis to find out what foods were being cooked or stored within them. This includes a lovely ‘indented beaker’, used for serving drinks, painted pottery and a stunning piece of Samian ware with a lion spout, from near the bath. A enormous storage jar was found set into the ground, perhaps acting as a basin of some kind.

As well as the intaglio that was found on the first day of the fieldschool, a delicate copper alloy bangle was found lying on top of the mosaic, again suggesting the wealth and status of the occupants.