Day 3 - Friday 10th July 2009

Another dry day with reasonable progress. The foundations of the dining room have appeared in trench G which we started yesterday (see plan). Here the structure is substantially built and the foundations are much wider than in trench H on the other side of the room. We may do some more work in trench H to investigate this.

We have started a new trench (N) to look at the foundations of the round turret near the south east corner of the building. A curbed feature emerged at the end of the afternoon which is probably where the turret has been demolished. We will explore this further tomorrow.

Trench D remains enigmatic. It cuts into the line of the north wall of the house exposed in trench G a few metres away but there is no sign of the wall - just layer after layer of rubble. The find shows that rubble was deposited when the building was demolished. We are still thinking about what exactly was done and why.