The dig – slow progress

Another very hot and rather slow day. We continued to excavate the skeleton and have found one of the back legs. It looks like it has suffered damage after it had been buried – most likely from gardening. We are still not certain whether it is a cat or a dog so that needs further investigation.

We have started excavating the path foundation that we discovered yesterday. It is clearly not very old as we have found Fletton-type bricks which were, I think, first made about 1880 but are not common around here until the 1920s and 30s. There was also some wire which may be even later. The rubble continued one very strange object. This was a clump made up of four layers of roof tiles mortared together with a brick joined to them. It looks like it might be the bottom of a tank or cistern but this is very uncertain. The mortar contains small scraps of chalk and looks early 18th century. It is not at all clear what it was part of. We will see if we can find some more clues tomorrow.

The enigmatic tile clump