Perfect weather today. The section we are working on is ridiculously complex with walls, surfaces and assorted oddities from at least 150 years all in one spot. Some of the things we are encountering are "work in progress" that I hope to be able to reveal with flair in a bit. But in the meantime...
Nice bit of pottery with two gladiators fighting on it!
Here's the trench as we work it.
Also on site today we had a film crew from BBC. Specifically from a program called "Songs of Praise". I understand it to be one of those really long running programs. It has a Christian focus and they wanted to use the recent early Christian finds at Vindolanda as a sort of basis for an episode. They spent quite a lot of time filming one crew of excavators.
These were friends of mine....and not especially pious. But of course you always send the Missionaries to the Pagans.....
My daily commute has plenty of what you expect in England in the spring. Lambs and intense green.....
Addendum: Here is what a somewhat more intact version of the gladiator bowl once looked like.
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