Island Life Magazine Ltd October/November 2010 | Page 63

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Island Life - October/November 2010

Photos:
Above:
Volunteers from
around the
world who offer
their time for
free pictured
working on this
years dig site.
Left: Tour guide
showing a party
round the dig
site.

family? “Very probably,” said Sir Barry,

this site, what they were up to and how it's

“though we haven't found any markers. They

always been a very good place to live.

could have been quite slight – perhaps just
a stone placed on top. It didn't have to be

Adrian Searle & Adam Watson for Brading
Roman Villa.

anything very big. The linear arrangement
and spacing suggests pre-knowledge of the
sites.”
More than 70 volunteers have helped to
run the dig. It sounds a lot, but it's taken
careful management of resources to ensure
that all aspects of the support organisation
have been adequately covered throughout
the three-week period – and beyond as
visitors continue to be shown around the
site. This year’s dig has made the story of
villa development so much clearer. There
may not have been any buried stonework to
expose but, we've now got a much better
understanding of the people who occupied
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Photo: One of the five cremation jars
excavated at Brading Roman Villa this
August 2010
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