Monday, May 19, 2025

Vindolanda 2025 - Jet Lag Recovery Week

Back home safely after a trip with eerily efficient connections everywhere.  Walk up, get on.  It will be a few days of mild mental and physical impairment, but circadian rhythms will be lulled with naps and flogged with strong coffee.  Time for a few follow up thoughts and pictures of May 2025 in eerily sunny Northern England.


I kept forgetting to post a picture of this nice floor tile with a pair of 18 century old fingerprints in it.  It was handy to keep our finds bag stationary in windy conditions, but said bag got pretty stable with the large number of pottery shards we were pulling up.  Oh, and a fair percentage of an 18 hundred year old cow.

For those following the story here over the past two weeks, the end of session video overview might be enlightening.  We had an extended version of this as our end of session site walk.


The daily walk to and from the site was delightful.  With some necessary twists and turns it is about two miles there and a bit more coming back by a different route.  Plenty of hills, beautiful scenery.  I saw rabbits, pheasants, deer.  And of course, these guys.  


More ramblings of a written variety in the days ahead, probably becoming more coherent around mid week.

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