Week 2 of our excavation in Grosvenor Park, Chester for University of Chester students. The rain has softened the soil, ideal conditions to practise trowelling! New walls are appearing, are any Roman? Was the medieval oven domestic or industrial? Weโve 2.5 weeks to find out!
ALT A view of the excavation trench surrounded by green grass, the ruined east end of the Church of St John the Baptist is in the background. The orange Roman ground surface is in the foreground, the foundations of walls and a cobbled surface are behind.
ALT Students are trowelling in the excavation trench , they have brightly coloured buckets and are dressed in blue, white, red and grey.
ALT A view of the excavation trench looking eastwards, grass and trees are beyond the trench. in the foreground is a line of pale stone blocks making a wall, An area of dark soil separates the wall from a square oven base or hearth. Students are carrying orange buckets
ALT Students dressed in blue and grey pullovers, they are trowelling and putting the soil into orange buckets. In the centre of the trench are two parallels lines of stone blocks.