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		<title>Kent Fieldwork Evening 2011</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[UniKent Archaeological Fieldwork Evening 2011 Recent discoveries and current research of The Department of Classical and Archaeological Studies Tuesday 29th November 7-9 p.m. KLT5 An evening of illustrated lectures: free, and open to all. Dr Francesco Trifilo  Estate agents’ distance meters and ancient gameboards: a report on fieldwork in the Forum Romanum, Rome Ms Celine [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lateantiqueostia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4308273&amp;post=986&amp;subd=lateantiqueostia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks and goodbye</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It remains for me to thank everyone involved in the Kent expedition to Ostia this year. I am especially grateful to the guys who drove our two buses over the Alps (Zsolt, Joe and Doug), and also to those diggers who ended up doing more than their share of backfill, for various reasons, such as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lateantiqueostia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4308273&amp;post=974&amp;subd=lateantiqueostia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All good things must come to an end&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our two weeks in Ostia have now finished and the team has returned home. The last day on site saw the trenches in the Bivium, the Paleastra, the Foro delle Statua Eroica and the Piazza della Vittora being closed and backfilled, meaning we could leave the site as we had found it. One of this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lateantiqueostia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4308273&amp;post=946&amp;subd=lateantiqueostia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Temple of Hercules</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; One of the highlights of this year’s work has been the rescue excavation and laser survey which we have carried out in the area sacra of the Temple of Hercules. Here the garden service have been busy restoring some of the very crumbly Late Roman walls (here shown after restoration), We are very grateful [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lateantiqueostia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4308273&amp;post=970&amp;subd=lateantiqueostia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Victory Square</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The excavations of the Nymphaeum in the Piazza della Vittoria have been progressing nicely. Here a small team led by Bob Harp have been recording a heavily restored late Roman fountain, in order to detect traces of its original decoration. Thankfully the large basin preserves not only traces of two phases of mortar lining, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lateantiqueostia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4308273&amp;post=967&amp;subd=lateantiqueostia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nymphaeum Bivium and Foro della statua eroica</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Nymphaeum Bivium is being excavated by Dan Jackson (above with spray can), supported by Joe Williams. Dan has made a great start, reopening the trench of last year to try to resolve some of the tricky stratigraphic relationships found there. It seems that we have found the front wall of the fountain’s basin, which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lateantiqueostia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4308273&amp;post=941&amp;subd=lateantiqueostia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Maiden Flight of Kent Force 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we have enjoyed the visit of two of our patrons, John Beale, who has paid for the bulk of the 2010 and 2011 staff and equipment costs and John Osborn, who has sponsored student placements in both years. John Beale’s donation this year included provision for a photographic helicopter, to take aerial shots of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lateantiqueostia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4308273&amp;post=936&amp;subd=lateantiqueostia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Palaestra</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The palaestra trench has now been completely cleaned. We are ready to context and draw the area, which is being dug by Sebastian Matz, assisted by Judith Wolf and their team. The excavation has revealed a phase of travertine paving for the palaestra, previously unknown, which was replaced by an extensive black and white mosaic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lateantiqueostia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4308273&amp;post=930&amp;subd=lateantiqueostia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From Ostia, with love</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve never been to Ostia before; in fact, I’ve never even been on an archaeological dig before. Needless to say, I jumped at the opportunity to join the Kent University’s excavation in Italy this year as an administrator and archivist. Our group is about 25 people in total from all different nationalities and specialisms which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lateantiqueostia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4308273&amp;post=875&amp;subd=lateantiqueostia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">From Ostia, With Love 1</media:title>
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		<title>Finds Processing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Devegetation has finished and trenches have now appeared at the four excavations sites.  In the palaestra, the main aim of the trenches is to uncover architectural proof of changes to the site in the 3rd and 4th century, particularly the date of the mosaic which covers the whole square. The trenches have revealed the foundation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lateantiqueostia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4308273&amp;post=878&amp;subd=lateantiqueostia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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