LATEST NEWS & ADDITIONS

• Introductory Video: this consists of extracts from previous videos, plus new 2009 materials looking at Bath House 2.
  
  
• Hi-level site photos at end of 2009 dig (20 of the 140 taken)
  
  
  
• 2009 Participants: a photo and list.
  
  
• 2009 Blog
  
  
• Dating of the 'Saxon' skeletons: it was revealed at the public meeting on 11th April that new dating evidence suggests that some of the skeletons are in the order of 200 years older than the others and possibly date back to 430AD. The orientation of the burials suggests that they were Christian, but the weapons found in the graves don't. StephenYoung is now thinking about the possibility that German mercenaries were hired to defend the locals from trouble coming up Watling Street, and that some of the burials are theirs. Given that the latest date for the bath house is 460, we may have a link between the last gasp of Roman Britain and the Anglo-Saxons. Excitement mounts!