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BUSINESS WEBSITES clues to Swindon's Roman past
Following the success of last year's community archaeology project at
NOW ANYBODY CAN AFFORD A WEBSITE Groundwell Ridge. English Heritage and Swindon Borough Council will
e-commerce sites again be excavating at the North Swindon site in July. Dr Pete Wilson,
Head of Research Policy (Roman Archaeology) at English Heritage
Call 01793 485355 describes the aim of the dig and invites the public to visit.
This year we will be working with a Learning from last year when
Is your PC bugging you? Q new partner organisation, Wessex the volunteers helped with the
Archaeology based in Salisbury back-breaking task of deturfing,
Call Practical Applications Ltd. for a friendly service who will be providing most of the this year the paid archaeologists
Upgrades Repairs Networking & the internet paid staff. will be doing that and also remov-
Home visits, collection & delivery The focus of the project will again ing the soil used to backfill the site
Or for help getting started, call us days, evenings or weekends on be community archaeology and the after last year's excavation.
01793 321361 Mobile 07919 263072 professional team will be working There will be an on-site display
E-mail: [email protected] www.practicalapplications.co.uk alongside volunteers from the of material along with posters re-
Friends of Groundwell Ridge. lating to the archaeology of the
Last year the bulk of the work area. Earlier this year we produced
was concentrated on Building 2, a booklet on the project to date
the one damaged in 1996, where which will be available during the
we excavated a 1.7 metre deep excavation and also from Swindon
cellar and part of the villas bath Museum and Art Gallery in Bath
suite. While on the western side of Road.
the site we cut a trench across We hope that the professional
what we thought might be a Ro- team will be on site from 27 June
man road and proved it was medi- with the volunteers starting on
eval. Tuesday 5 July.
Searching for answers. The pub//c gallery at last year's dig
watch the archaeo/gists working out what they've uncovered

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We will be working from Monday
Our project in July will be on a
manufacturer and save money smaller scale as we are setting out to Friday in the first week, but our
At Faringdon Upholstery we manufacture top quality to answer a particular question - normal week will be Tuesday to
upholstery supplied direct to the public. We make how did the hot range of the baths Saturday. Visitors will be welcome
your furniture the way you want it, with thousands develop? every working day.
of fabrics to choose from Last year we got the plan of the During National Archaeology
cold range and a wonderfully well- Week we will be conducting site
Craftsman built Don't settle for preserved cold plunge bath. But in tours on Sundays 16 and 24 July.
the hot range we were faced with a We hope to see people who vis-
All suites fully guaranteed mass produced complex sequence that included a ited us last year and those who
massive layer of broken tile, be/ow would like to learn about the
y when you can
t All suites covered in right and an apparent replanning Groundwell Project.
your own choice of fabric have made-to- of the baths during their use. This To contact the Friends of
may have involved the replace- Groundwell Ridge, call Isobel
measure for the ment of a number of smaller rooms Thompson on 466559.
Solid wood frames
same price! with one larger, though we have
seen so little of the earlier version
Made to measure
Come and that we cannot be sure.
Re-upholstery see our wide What we do know is that there
01367 were two separate furnaces serv-
service selection of ing the hot range which suggests
14185 that either, one replaced the other
Curtains suites today or. if they were contemporary, that
the hot range in its earlier phase
was subdivided.