All ready! Time for a cup of tea for our wonderful student & graduate volunteers.

After a long day of packing the van, unpacking the van, lots of hefting things about and watching portacabins arrive, we’re on our way home. I’ll have more tweets for you on Sunday!

Here's the post from Sunday that I missed - our trenches are open! You can read all about it on our Facebook page, with pictures: facebook.com/IpplepenArchae…

Good morning! It’s a bit overcast this morning; line cleaning continues apace. I can’t wait to get in there and have a go myself - but the public hub need setting up first, so I’m off into Ipplepen itself with our intern.

The trenches have started switching from line cleaning to feature excavation - how exciting! We also have some planning going on ready for the next section.

Here’s last night’s dig update with a few more pictures - bit.ly/2LjHdLR

Time to start meeting our team! First up, our site manager! bit.ly/2o8uv9C

End of week one roundup! I wasn’t on site today but our hardworking team of staff, students & volunteers were: bit.ly/2NhES5U

Some exciting new finds up in the hub and also online for you to have a peek at - bit.ly/2MDnkFb

Experts from the University of Exeter are uncovering the secrets of Devon’s Roman history. Have a tour of the excavation, see some of the finds and talk to members of the team at an Open Day this Saturday 8th September. Exeter Archaeology Ipplepen Project ex.ac.uk/bwP

(I must deeply apologise for having been so quiet! I was off site for a week and have been hideously busy with site support, but I’m back now! - Freya)

We've made excellent progress on features large and small! In one corner of Trench 16 we have a small gully that may be the remains of a 'roundhouse', while on the other side of the site our large 4th century well is going down and down! bit.ly/2oWfSXp

We've hit water! Work on our late Roman well has stopped as we've found the water table. Although we cannot excavate any further, we have used coring equipment to show that the well was at least 3.3m deep.

News just in! Very rare for Devon- glazed #RomanPottery found at #IpplepenDig. See ipplepen.exeter.ac.uk @ExeterUniNews University of Exeter

Our local #Devonvolunteer Anne (centre of pic) talks #Romanpottery with Hub visitors. A big thank you for all your hard work! #IpplepenDig

More great #artefacts from the joint University of Exeter and Augustana University #excavations at the Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village, SD #SD2017 x.com/zooarchaemily/…