Alison Telfer has started work supervising excavation of a small trench, D10, at Sant’ Omobono, Rome. Here she reveals what team D10 has found so far…

Greetings from a watery trench!

Yes, we’ve finally hit the water table! It happened on Tuesday afternoon, although not with a bang (as my flatmate envisaged), but with a couple of innocent looking damp patches that turned into a rather determined pool of water at the eastern end of the trench.

 

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