“It was an intensive programme of work that we did in 2012 and the majority of finds relate to the Roman occupation of Monmouth and the later medieval occupation,” explained Mr Crawford. “The Roman finds were contained within a number of ditches and pits. We recovered the oldest known flint tools from Monmouth and indeed some of the earliest known from the county itself (Early Mesolithic, no later than 7,900 BC) as well as Roman brooches, coins, and pottery.
Archaeologist, Johnny Crawford, explains one of the finds to Headmaster, Mr Simon Dorman, and senior deputy head academic, Mrs Liz Gregory “One of the Samian pottery pieces has an ownership graffito on it which is believed to be scratched by a woman. This was a particularly nice thing to find and quite unusual for Monmouth.”