Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Vindolanda 2022 - Memorium

A few years back excavators turned up something both dark and unexpected, the skeleton of a young child buried under a barracks floor in the 3rd century AD.  A coroner's inquest deemed it "homicide by person or persons unknown."  I missed excavating the spot myself by roughly 10 feet and three weeks.

Every time I come to dig I always leave a few flowers on the spot.  Given a tragic event in my home town it has a bit of extra poignancy this year.



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