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	<title>Kent-Berlin Ostia Excavations</title>
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		<title>Ostia Excavations 2009 Public Lecture</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ostia Excavations of 2009 will be presented in a public lecture at the Kent Archaeological Fieldwork Evening on 24th November in Canterbury, in the Grimond Lecture Theatre 1, on the Canterbury Campus. The evening lasts from 7.15pm to 10pm. Entrance is free and all are welcome.
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		<title>Luke goes home</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I escaped this morning at 7.30am. Family commitments (my 10 week old son) mean that I cant stay longer though I will return if more remains to be done. Poor Judith was left to backfill the last corner of the palaestra, along with Axel and his team who are trying to get some (dry)  photos [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lateantiqueostia.wordpress.com&blog=4308273&post=623&subd=lateantiqueostia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Backfilling in the rain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was hard. We are down to just Michael Mulryan, Judith and myself, and we spent the day back-filling, with some help from a volunteer from the German team in the afternoon. A large area was covered but it was not quite enough. When we were turned off the site at 7pm, a half of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lateantiqueostia.wordpress.com&blog=4308273&post=620&subd=lateantiqueostia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exit at speed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we tried to store all the domestic and digging equipment in a lockup garage in the west of Rome. Easier said than done. At lunchtime Bill and Luke went off to hire a van. They did this with surprising speed, via the metro and a taxi across the city which allowed Bill to take [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lateantiqueostia.wordpress.com&blog=4308273&post=618&subd=lateantiqueostia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cuts (and bruises)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A core team now remains on site, of about 7 diggers and specialists, who are trying to backfill and finish off the remaining jobs. New discoveries have not entirely stopped. Luke has revealed a definite cut in the sondage in the façade, which helps to confirm the relative phasing of the forum, by cleaning up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lateantiqueostia.wordpress.com&blog=4308273&post=616&subd=lateantiqueostia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Addio Americani</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are now doing the back-filling across the site. This involves putting a white cloth (tessuto) down on the site and then covering it with spoil. This is a somewhat depressing process, which resembles putting a shroud on the site, although there is the opportunity to make togas, or to pose as Sarauman the White [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lateantiqueostia.wordpress.com&blog=4308273&post=614&subd=lateantiqueostia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Temple blocks lifted</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have today removed two large blocks from the 4th c. temple in the palaestra. This has revealed yet more of the revetment around the cult statue pediment and the opus sectile (marble tile) floor that surrounded it. Sometimes there are bits of marble tile in situ, otherwise there are traces in the mortar where [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lateantiqueostia.wordpress.com&blog=4308273&post=612&subd=lateantiqueostia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>English pizza and a ball-bath</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ana continued to work on the mortar this morning on site, providing new observations about the decoration of the nymphaeum opposite the forum, and surveying the mortar across the palaestra. We were all very sad to see here leave, as her skill in both excavation and conservation has brought a whole new area of scholarship  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lateantiqueostia.wordpress.com&blog=4308273&post=609&subd=lateantiqueostia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wash out</title>
		<link>http://lateantiqueostia.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/wash-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Luke, Michael and Paolo today visited the archives of the sopraintendenza. We were able to find a range of old photographs from the early excavations of the palaestra which provided some details of the clearance work that took place in the 1920s and at other times. We have been able to confirm that no serious [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lateantiqueostia.wordpress.com&blog=4308273&post=607&subd=lateantiqueostia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rain doesn’t stop play</title>
		<link>http://lateantiqueostia.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/rain-doesn%e2%80%99t-stop-play/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the heavens opened, with an almost comic timing. Luke was giving a site tour to the whole team and had just reached the late Roman temple. He stood there speculating that it might be a temple to Hercules or Jupiter, as official personifications of late Roman pagan emperors. The skies darkened and thunder rumbled. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lateantiqueostia.wordpress.com&blog=4308273&post=595&subd=lateantiqueostia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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