My archaeology visit

Today I went with Jacob and dad to an archaeological dig. It was a dig where they were hoping to find Roman ruins.

At the archaeological dig we learned how the Celts would make a wooden house and how archaeologists know where to dig.

This is how the Celts would make a house:

1. First they put post holes in the ground.
2. They put wood in the post holes.
3. They make a roof.

When it rains, the water will drip off the roof and into some channels along the ground because they didn't have pipes. Over a long time, the channels fill up with different soils and the house falls down. When the house falls down, the foundations are still in the ground. Farmers might find it and will think it's a great place to put a farm. Later, archaeologists might decide to dig there. They start digging they dig down with diggers and find lots of interesting ancient remains. Once the big diggers have taken a lot of the top layers of soil off, they will know where to dig down with their shovels because of the different soil colours caused by the water running off the houses.

She took us to the the dig site and we saw the remains of a Celtic house. It was three different coloured soils and one of the colours was orangeish yellow. Another was orange. The last one was grey.

We saw a road that was heading right into the house. We figured out it was a Roman road. The Celtic house came before the Roman road.

There was also an area which they thought was a Victoran rubbish dump. They were finding broken glass, pots, Marmalade jars. We made her fish up an old bottle that was used for soda or beer or other drinks.

We also got to feel different parts of Roman pottery. We then had to do a sheet about an object they had found.

We also found lots of potatoes!