The days are winding down....
Current place I'm excavating is the apartment of the centurion. His room was always the largest and always at the end of the barracks block. Here's an overview. I know, making surfaces look interesting in a photo is a challenge.
The very observant among you might note that the floor is not buckled and bowed like the other barracks rooms. In addition to quite probably better maintenance, it seems likely that the earlier wall that "broke the back" of the other rooms is not present at this end of the building.
Various small things turned up. Not all that exciting.
Lumpy iron thing. Probably a nail, but outside chance of it being a low grade "bow brooch". It goes in the general finds bag with the pottery, glass, bones, and, yes, nails. Let post ex figure it out.
It is an iron ring...with a rust stained stone stuck in the middle. Use? Ah, who knows.
And lacking knowledge I can have a little fun with speculation.
One of the ladies digging the same trench is from New Zealand. In the course of chatting I learned that she had a side gig as an extra in movies filmed over there. Of which there are many.
In one production she wore pointy ears and was part of a fantasy genre. She had signed an NDA and so could not tell me which one. * But it got me to thinking......
Hmm, hobbit sized person. Comes from as close to Middle Earth as you can get on this planet. And I find a mysterious Ring. Knowing that The One Ring can change sizes based on its wearer it is probably for the best that there was a stone wedged in there. Otherwise I supposed I would by now be turning dark and hissing about "MY PRECIOUSSS...."
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* she showed me a photo of herself in full makeup and costume. At which point I asked if I would have to watch the execrable Rings of Power series on Amazon to see her. Thankfully, no.
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