Digging Vindolanda Day Four--Mystery solved
Various things coming up around the site today. My digging mate Nigel came up with a broken coin that had enough inscription remaining to be helpful dating our confusing welter of walls, present and absent.
Here's a nice bit of jewelry from the other side of my road:
I think I mentioned yesterday that another team had encountered a large batch of broken storage jars (amphorae if you are curious). Here's what happens when you are careless with several large pottery containers:
Somebody did not clean up after themselves!
As for me, not much to report. I am still in pursuit of the missing wall. I continue to advance my trench through largely barren clay, just a few pottery bits here and there.
But I have figured out where the missing wall stones are:
A snug little cottage just up the road from the excavations. Hey, nice stones mister, don't suppose you want to tell us where your great grandfather got em......
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Don't blame the blokes for early mastery of recycling. Dig on!
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