Archaeological Dig

Once a year our history club organises for us us go help with an archeological dig in Ewell.

Here are some photos

We started off by digging 

These are some pieces of Roman pottery that I dug up. 

Lawrence finds his first Roman pottery sherds.

Lawrence then went to wash some of the Roman pottery that he had found earlier.  

Because the other archaeologists were looking for bigger stuff they dug with bigger tools and all of the stuff that they missed would go with the soil onto this big pile. So we decided to sieve through the soil.

After a bit of sieving we found a sheep/goat rib, lots of pottery some Roman chalk, a bronze age tool, (I found the bronze age tool.) and a Roman coin. (Sam found the coin.)

These are the other Roman coins that they had found on the site.

and these are the other Bronze age tools that they had found

 Because the coin was quite a rare find they wanted to take our picture.

This is my Bronze age tool.

This is the Email we received a few weeks later.

Hi

Just a quick up date for those who came on the dig. We have had a looked at the items you found. The oldest was a Bronze

Age flint tool some 4000 years old. Most items found were Roman including many different types of pottery. They included Samian ware imported from France which was very expensive in its time. Also parts of drinking beakers imported from Germany. Wine storage jars from Spain, with others made more locally in Farnham. Much bone and a flue tile from a Roman central heating system.

A Roman coin was also found which was a copper coin of Constantine 11 dating between AD 317 and 340 and was made in Trier in Germany! Perhaps brought to Ewell by a Roman soldier. Constantine was one of three brothers who split the empire up between them and he ruled Britain, France, Germany and Spain.     

The director of the dig was very impressed by you all and hopes to be able to ask you back again next year.

Well done to everyone.

David l

David Brooks

Museum Assistant

Bourne Hall