Interview with Zarah, Jenny, Robyn, Samantha & Carla

How did you hear of the excavation?

Robyn: Through our history teacher. (Are you studying history?) No! Samantha and Carla are doing Advanced Geography. They asked around the students in the school, and Jenny and I were interested.

Zarah: We're lucky because our history teacher Mr Thomas fixes a lot of these sorts of things - I don't think I'd get the same opportunities if he wasn't at the school.

Why did you want to take part?

Robyn: It sounded interesting - not something we've done before.

Zarah: I am interested in archaeology and I thought it would be good work experience - I could see if I liked it and could study it at University.

Carla: You can do archaeology at University and I wanted to see if I'd like to do that.

What have you been doing on site?

Zarah: I've been helping in one of the trenches - Trench 15. The project is in its third week. I'm only doing one day this year but I was here last year too and then I did two days. There was more detailed work last year - I came onto the site later and I found several artefacts then

Have you found anything today?

Samantha: Yes, I found two bits of worked quartz.

Carla: I've found glass and pottery. The archaeologist was expecting some glass because there were some small windows in the building.

What did you know about archaeology before this?

Zarah: Before I came, I knew a little because I'd watched quite a lot of archaeology programmes on the TV but it doesn't give you the same experience as actually being here - so I've learnt a lot.

Would you do this again?

Robyn: Well, I might like to try somewhere else - somewhere hotter!