Dr David Errickson shows the structures and finds discovered at a Roman villa near Kettering by archaeology students from Cranfield University at a dig
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00:00So there's the main structure, again external, and this ancillary building or such is sitting
00:09away from the actual villa itself, so this is a structure on its own. It's a little odd this,
00:16and again we probably need to come down to it externally to this, but it's not just got one
00:24wall. So we have a face running here up the middle with one wall, and then we've got a second wall
00:36here. That's just a bit that's been robbed out, and we've come down onto the wall foundation so
00:41we can see that the wall should continue, and then this is the internal space. Here we have
00:49the entrance, so the wall kind of stops, we've got a nice little entrance way here,
00:54and the floor inside is mortared, and that comes down onto a stone surface. We have a whole range
01:01of different types of pottery. I'm not a pottery expert by any means whatsoever, but we have some
01:07lovely mortarium, you know the mortar, the shelly kind of fragments included, so you know your pestle
01:13and mortar for grinding and such. We have some nice greywares, a decoration on, and some bases
01:19here as well, because we have some nice samian, one with a pair of legs on, yeah this is nice.
01:28And then we have some fake samian as well.