Comment: Romans in Ravenglass video now live!

I’m pleased to say that the Romans in Ravenglass video is now available to view on the Lake District National Park website. Just click here to view.

The 5 minute version is a cut down version of the 13.40 minute one which is well worth watching. It gives a really good impression of the dig and what all your hard work achieved. If you are lucky you might even see yourself in the video!!

Digger's view: Early one morning ...

On the last day of digging (28/9/13), Bryan, Kurt, Rowan and Sandra got into site, got set up, and then waited for the diggers to arrive.  Over their tea and coffee, Rowan, Kurt and Bryan discussed the strategy for the day.  Meanwhile, the Finds Officer went on the prowl with her phone camera ...

Report: 26th-28th September 2013

The last few days on site were very busy, hence the lack of blogging :D  As well as hosting another day of School Visits, we also had the BBC visit us on Friday, along with the usual film crew also getting those last few shots for their film for the Lake District. 

BBC North West interviewed people on site, as well as taking film of the finds. Unfortunately, there isn't a link to the Look North programme on the BBC website, so those who actually saw it can count themselves as lucky!

The BBC cameraman went to great lengths to get a good shot of the Samian 'Venus' sherd, which is rather tiny, but she *did* appear on the tv!

Furious packing up of washed finds took place on the Saturday, and fortunately the weather stayed fine so there was plenty of room to sort them all out!  A big thank you to Janice who undertook this mammoth task!

Maggie kindly washed the door pivot stone which finally made its way to the Finds Hut.

And here it is, nice and clean.  It's possible to see the 'fault' line on the top right, which would have ruled it out of being a quernstone.

Then it was time for the final Finds Talk and the Final Site Tour of the season and there was a very good turnout out, including the Muncaster Estate owners Peter and Iona Frost Pennington:

Director Kurt's thoughts on the dig so far will be included in a future blog!

Report: 24th September - School visits

Good weather heralded the arrival of groups of children visiting from various local schools.  This meant that the site was very busy!

The children were trying out pot washing ...

 
... using the portable sand pit to excavate ,,,

... and taking the Spoilheap Challenge!

The film company were also on-site making a video of the excavations ...

Meanwhile, the site was still having visitors drop by for a talk and a tour ...

... and fifty-six finds trays were out in the fresh air drying ...

... whilst small finds were being bagged, and the bags were pierced by the Holey Nail of the Finds Hut so that the finds didn't sweat ...

Phew!