You will get a bumper two days today as we all went out for dinner to dear friends nearby to celebrate our time with them and our years working at the villa. The scanning and photo survey guys were due at 8am and we still had a little tickling to do, so an early start. We also needed to spray the mosaics with water to bring out the colours.

In the Buttress trench we carried on to find the depth of the basin and found more painted plaster and other lovely finds.
Jane who works as the education person at the villa, finally, after six years managed to have time to have a go at excavating. She worked with me in the buttress trench and soon found so lovely things.
We also had a birthday to celebrate with one of our core team, Amy, who joined us last year as a student on placement. She was so brilliant we asked her to join us again this year and she has also just graduated.