Author: Lowenna Smith

Thanks everyone who’s been following our blog this year, and everyone who made 2015 a great season. Hopefully we’ll be back again in 2016!

Here’s our stamped Samian ware. The type is probably Dragendorf 31. It was made in Central Gaul (France). The stamp reads ‘Aucella’ and it dates from AD150-180!

We’ve just had our 500th visitor to the Hub! We are still open this week so please come and visit us to see what we’ve been up to and have a look at some of the finds we have on display.

Don’t forget that, although our Open Day is now finished, the Archaeology Hub at the back of the Methodist Church in Ipplepen is still open every weekday this week except for Friday from 10am to 4pm. Come on down for more updates and a look at some of the finds that weren’t displayed at the Open Day!

A huge thank you to everybody who came to our Open Day! It was very sunny and we were very busy – we hope everybody had a great day. Special thanks goes to everybody who helped make the day happen by running stalls, giving demonstrations and talking to our visitors. A grand total of an amazing £1001.80 was raised towards the project. Thanks again to all that attended!

Yesterday we were very lucky to be given a talk by Dr Sam Moorhead from the British museum. He told us all about how to identify Roman Coins and the coins that were found in Ipplepen. Thank you for a really interesting talk!

On Tuesday Ollie celebrated his birthday, so Happy Birthday Ollie! Like Joe he celebrated in style by doing archaeology all day!

Local excavation participants Hilary and Mary with Mary’s grandson Robbie at the Ipplepen village show’s prize winning stall:

A special hello to our followers in Dallas! Here’s a picture of Kristin Leith carefully cleaning our Iron Age pottery which is currently on display at the Hub.