By 25 July, we had got down more than 1.5 metres in Trench XIII, which is in the centre of the arena. Having removed what seems to be an early eighteenth-century garden deposit that has produced a huge amount of clay tobacco pipe, we encountered deliberate dumps of soil. This seems to have been placed to bring up the bowl-shaped depression of the former arena to the ground level of c 1700. Underneath these deposits, the layers have become much more complex and there seems to be an old property boundary crossing our trench diagonally.
In Trench X, we have taken out some more of the ‘drain’ deposits that we first found last year. We have had permission to extend the trench to the east, beyond the outer wall of the amphitheatre, where we have now found proof that the current outer wall of the East Entrance is secondary: there are foundations of the original door jamb.
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| A roman melon bead | An early clay pipe | A piece of German stoneware |
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| A Roman intaglio | An early 18th Century Pit | Roman rusticated beaker shards from the early drain |
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| A Mid 20th Century brick warning of Electricity cables | A Roman buckle made from bone | Medieval ram head spout |