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......
Don't blame the blokes for early mastery of recycling. Dig on!
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