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Mud and Bones
A few weeks ago, Raymond Hackett went to an archaeological dig in Northampton. He saw a big mud square with about three ditches. The people had found different things in the three ditches. They found a medieval ditch. A Saxon Norman road and a Saxon ditch. They dug the ditches to find out about old Northampton because the builders were just about to build a new shopping centre. There were lots of bricks and bones and round metal things like a bent bar. He saw two cracked Saxon pots like the one in the picture and some roman water piping.
Raymond said: "A boy that showed us around became my friend and took me across the barrier to the spoil heap where they put the mud that they had dug out. We started to dig into the spoil heap and I found some old bones. A girl came across too and she kept moaning because she couldn't find any bones. I found another bone and the man told me that they were Saxon. I gave a bone to the girl and she stopped moaning and started to dig with her hands."
When he got back to school we found out that eight years ago, the children in class 6 working with Mrs Tysoe and Mr Murdin wrote a little book called Eastfield Lower School's History of Northampton. It said that when the romans invaded our country, they found people living in the valley by the side of the River Nene. These were called the Celts. They made very good pots so they took over the village which is now called Duston. They built a road over to their big road called The Watling Street so they could take the pots all over England and even back to Rome without getting smashed on the old bumpy tracks.
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