Archaeology
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The BBC has a very nice little slideshow of some of the skeletons from that dig at York which are claimed to be of gladiating victims. There’s actually some good stuff here, and since I can’t really embed the slideshow, I do want to make some comments (the numbers refer to the slide): 1. 60…
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Image via Wikipedia I’ve been waiting for my spiders to bring me this one … but they seemed to have stopped at Francesca Tronchin’s first (tip o’ the pileus). Brief item from Balkan Travellers: An archaeologist has discovered unique wall paintings in an ancient residence in the late Roman town of Novae, located in northern…
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Tip o’ the pileus to Franz Cumont, who is back from the dead, living on Facebook, and posting interesting things every now and then. This one comes from Le Monde: Pistillus était un grand potier. Du moins par l’abondance de sa production. Pour le goût, c’est une autre histoire. Ses céramiques auraient leur place au…
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A late-Roman/Christian (?) cemetery … here’s some coverage: ARCHAEOLOGISTS have found what is thought to be a late-Roman cemetery in a county village. So far, a total of 46 human remains have been excavated and archaeologists say they expect to have found more than 50 by the time they finish next week. The discovery was…
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A potentially-interesting find due to waterworks construction: A 2,000-YEAR-OLD human skeleton has been unearthed alongside Iron Age artefacts near Tewkesbury. Archaeologists uncovered signs of the ancient Roman villa in a field on the edge of Bredon’s Norton. It is thought the finds could be of national importance. Metal detector hunts in recent years had led…
