Hadrian’s Wall
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From a Vindolanda Trust press release: Finding something that you can relate to is always a special moment on an archaeological dig. At Vindolanda this is a common occurrence, a site where the special qualities lie not only in the discovery of gold and silver or artefacts which relate to the military might of the…
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An interesting podcast … here’s an excerpted description: This podcastellum consists entirely of an interview with Dr Jon Coulston of the School of Classics at the University of St Andrews (which is in Scotland, lest you forget). If you can hear your way past the rumble of the bus and the chatter of the ROMEC…
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Pardon the groaner in that headline … this is actually hype for a television programme on the BBC but it looks rather interesting: Hundreds of miles away from Hadrian’s Wall, a man surfing the internet from the comfort of his home stumbled across something that astonished the professionals. Bryn Gethin’s discovery on his computer in…
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Interesting item from the Independent hyping something in Current Archaeology … here’s the end bit: […] For decades, archaeologists struggled to date the indigenous communities around the wall because the site yielded very few artefacts. The only way of dating these Roman and pre-Roman Iron Age settlements was to excavate what little there was. Since…
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Owen Jarus – LiveScience’s guy-who-writes-stuff-in-our-purview – in addition to the piece on Hadrian’s Wall we mentioned a few days ago, has also done a feature on Carthage … worth a look …
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