Day 2: Can this excavation get any better? Yep!

Millstone with number (weight?) detail 

Every day whilst driving to site, through the village of Trellech, I pass a house which has a huge millstone propped up outside. This morning I had a little daydream and thought 'wouldn't it be amazing to find one of those', I quickly dismissed the idea as being a bit far-fetched and carried on driving.  
As digging got under way I was thinking to myself that there would be no way that today, or even the rest of the dig could live up to day 1, I mean, a whole intact bread oven and an intact ceramic pot of some description. Was I wrong or what! I was excavating in a different area to yesterday, however it was one of the spots I had been in during the summer, I had only been there for maybe an hour. I had shifted one or two large loose rocks to get to what we all agreed was the likely floor level, when I started to uncover a slab with what looked like a chevron pattern on it. It didn't look natural to me, even less natural when I thought I could make out some characters etched into the stone... "Erm! David come and have a look at this please". As he walked over I realised it was quite hefty circular stone, and my mind went straight back to my earlier daydream. As David stood over me I looked for a possible centre point and there was a lovely square (if incomplete) hole. "It's a millstone!" not quite believing myself, "I think you might be right there Claire". 

Millstone in context

A flurry of excitement ensued with everyone coming to have a look at the find of the day (and all before lunch too). 

The rest of the day brought more questions regarding the area behind the newly discovered bread oven. David and Nathan managed to discover a whole new set of walls where previously the thought was leaning towards there being no more than just tumble down from a potential upper floor. This meant that Bethany and James were required to excavate the rear of the bread oven leaving David and Nathan to try and figure out their new puzzle. 

The rest of the day was quite quiet as far as finds goes, discounting copious instances of stray wall plaster of course, but if day 1 and day 2 are anything to go by, bring on day 3 I say.

When is a pile of rubble not a pile of rubble?
When it might be another bread oven!

Chris in the Western end of the site.

Seem to have another wall here Ray!

Behind the bread oven.

Finally, is this the east end?