Students Work On Roman Finds AT Lullingstone -- A general view of the excavation site at Lullingstone, Lieut. Col. Meates is seen over in the far left corner chatting with a student. Housewives, schoolboys, students and professional men are helping archeologists to dig up the past on the site of a Roman villa which is being excavated at Lullingstone, Kent, Under the direction of Lieut Col. Meates, the "diggers" are working on a flight of Roman steps considered to be 1800yrs old. August 29, 1950.