We have a floor level!

Hello Everyone!

Exciting times! The past two days have been ripe with special finds! I will get started with the pictures because there are quite a few. So our square went from pile of roof tiles, to pile of collapsed stone wall (which sucks more to clean then the roof tiles, to floor level which is hard packed and has lots of broken vessels on it.

The picture above you can see in the top left corner, no more rocks or roof tiles!

This is it! Our first coin! It is so big you can even read the amount which is 'K' and on the back you can see the emperor's head and he is holding a cross, but until it is cleaned we will not know which emperor it is.

The long (by some) awaited only picture of me in the square, this was taken this morning before we started digging so now the square is as deep as my shoulders and we are starting to have trouble getting in and out but the floor is 10 cm below my feet as we found out today.

 

This is a picture of our supervisor Goce hard at work in the North East corner with our giant Iron block which we still do not know what it's identity is. Two conclusions which have been thrown out are an anvil maybe or just a piece of refined Iron Ore which had not yet been made into anything.

 

This is a bit of a blurry picture of the Iron block, a capita from an Ionic column (which is being used as a stone in their wall near their entrance which is in the square beside ours) and a mortar upside-down which is also being used as a stone for their wall.

 

This is a close up of Goce's hand and part of a red slipped fineware plate and a mysterious very fragile Iron circle, which you can see half of from under a roof tile which is covering the rest of it.

 

This is Melissa, my new special finds model, she is holding a giant Byzantine bronze coin which we found on our floor level and one of three carved knife handles which we also found today.

Tomorrow hopefully we will finish uncovering the rest of the floor, if you can imagine we have only uncovered maybe one eighth of the floor level so far and we have all of these amazing finds, we also have a smashed amphorae and a broken glass bottle which we may have all of the pieces for.

I will update you all as we continue!