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The archaeologists are back in North Swindon for the biggest delve into the town's Roman history. with lots
more for the public to see and do until 25 July.
Working on a 25 metre square An exhibition of finds will be on
y
area at the Groundwell Ridge display in a site portakabin with Do ou need a hat but
scheduled ancient monument site, information about the dig.
at Ash Brake, archaeologists from Romans join the diggers don't want to BUY one?
English Heritage, helped by stu- On Living History weekend - 10/11
dents and a number of supervised July - 'Roman actors will recreate Then call ,tee
volunteers, will try to discover more aspects of domestic life to show
about the Roman buildings dating what it might have been like at
from the 2nd to 4th Centuries. The Groundwell Ridge two thousand ^h e ^ /^ ad ^atter
investigation site covers remains years ago.
damaged when builders started In Haydon Wick
l ' '
digging foundations for housing in National Archaeology Days.
1 996 and found the site. The last weekend of digging takes (01793) 704005 or
In the May Link Pete Wilson, place on 17/18 July - when there 07710 298790
Senior Archaeologist for English will be extra site tours and addi- to see the large selection of
Heritage, wrote, the stripping of ti onal displays of material from this Hats to HIRE!
the housing estate road cut a year's excavations.
swathe through the centre of a For other information, the site
major Roman structure, but did not telephone is 07889 808139.
destroy it entirely. The area to be
excavated includes the damaged
pa rts and better-preserved features
to either side.
We believe the building might
be a bath house, or the bath wing Swindon schools will get a taste for
of a larger building, perhaps with a archaeology. On visits with their
cold plunge bath. We know it had teachers they will see the archae-
an under-floor heating system and ologists at work, receive instruc-
probably painted wall-plaster. It tion on digging techniques and will
also may have had one or more carry out an excavation in a spe-
simple mosaic floors. We also hope cially prepared site which does not
to dig a trench across the possible interfere with the ancient monu-
Roman road, perhaps a key ele- ment.
ment of the site, the interpretation View and tour the site
of which is currently purely based A large raised wheelchair accessi-
on the appearance of the ble viewing platform has been built
earthworks.' next to the main dig site from which
This year children from several
the public can observe the dig
throughout the week.
The town centre comes alive with colour
Archaeologists will be
and noise for the summer festival
- see the advert on pane 21 working from Wednesday
to Sunday 8.30am to
4.45pm, with conducted
tours at 1 1 am and 3pm.
Mela models
Men and women are
needed to show off Asian
styles with charisma and
energy in the fashion show
at the Swindon Mela on
Saturday 31 July, 12noon
to 7pm in Old Town Gar-
dens.
Call Sushma Patel on
870226 (weekdays) for
details.