Day 2: Tuesday 19 July 2022
Today was the day of national record breaking temperatures, and it was no different in Chatburn, Lancashire. The team of 5 volunteers worked slowly and carefully in the heat and we finished work early for the day.
Some early mattocking (breaking up the ground carefully) revealed the beginnings of a cobbled/metalled road surface, beneath an upper clay deposit. This clay layer contained more fragments of post medieval slipware, demonstrating that the road surface was repaired and materials re-used after the Roman period.
So there are no signs of the Romans themselves yet, but we will continue to look after we finish these ice creams!
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