Afternoon garden dig

[Westfront]

Got a matching headline to Cru's yesterdays post: http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/today-s-finds/575234-morning-garden-dig.html
Funny how we europeans do similar things when the options are down till harvest time....
I was invited to visit the site a roman castell once stood. I did not made pics of the garden because in fact the dig was in an area with lots of rubbish behind the farm. No need to cover everything nicely.

Looks like i hit part of a garbage pit or ditch where the romans disposed kitchen waste.
Lots of bones, animal teeth, bulls horns

Pottery with black ware, samian and white pottery

A couple looks like matching, thats why i took them home

And they did, nice roman pot

Another interesting find was this millstone fragment. It was milled both sides and broke when the first side was still in use. You can see the worn curved grooves on this pic. Millstones were remilled a couple times before discarded.

This is the other side. You can see how flat this side was and how well made the grooves are.

 

[CRUSADER]

Nice when they match.

Funny thing is, I never get coins in with it, I guess they didn't get in the rubbish pit easily??

 

[CRUSADER]

PS. Funny we thought of the same thing at the same time.

 

[Westfront]

Nice when they match.

Funny thing is, I never get coins in with it, I guess they didn't get in the rubbish pit easily??

I never made any interesting metal finds in rubbish pits. I helped the archies several times when excavating pits. Nails or not IDable iron at best. No coins or brooches. Best guess is the rubbish was disposed by the lowest degree slaves with nothing to loose. Imagine the smell of these pits with all that amimal parts in... No free roman was close i bet!

 

[Hawks88]

Love that pot very nice.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congratualtions on the beautiful pottery!

 

[Westfront]

Love that pot very nice.

Thanks Hawks, for 1600-1700 year old kitchen ware still sound!

 

[Westfront]

Congratualtions on the beautiful pottery!

Thanks Prof, i have another one of these pots, a lot more nice, but broken at the same place around the belly.

 

[ivobg]

I did find scrappies on my experimental trash pits, so don't give up on them
The one thing i didnt find was samian ware

 

[pepperj]

Cool seeing what the garden pits are showing now that the fields are planted. Great looking pottery, well done.

 

[A2coins]

Amazing finds

 

[against the wind]

Of course we don't have old Roman camps to search but the crop is being planted May 15th on one of my largest farm permissions. Time and weather is not on my side.
Congrats on your finds and thanks for the education.

 

[sutphin]

NICE POTTERY SHERDS

 

[Lanny in AB]

My garden has nothing that interesting in it!!

Nicely done, and all the best,

Lanny