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Showing posts with label Archeology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Archeology. Show all posts
Friday, August 7, 2026

Back at the Digs

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I've been back from the Vindolanda digs for a couple of months now.  But the work goes on.  Here's some clever small finds from Vind...
Friday, May 29, 2026

Vindolanda 2026 - Uphill and Down

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When I retired at 60 it was with the notion that I'd do any darn thing I wanted for a decade, then slow down a bit.  It was a solid plan...
Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Vindolanda 2026 - Last Day

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Here's the delayed Last Day report from my excavating at Vindolanda.  The final day is always very busy.  There are areas to be tidied u...
Friday, May 22, 2026

Vindolanda 2026 - Day Ten and Last

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Sun and good spirits across the site on the last day of the session.  Report on Day 10 and on various ancillary matters will have to wait a ...
Thursday, May 21, 2026

Vindolanda 2026 - Day Nine

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Rain shortened day.  This will happen in England.  Annoyingly after the day was "called" the skies cleared and it was rather nice....
Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Vindolanda 2026 - Day Eight

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The days are winding down.... Current place I'm excavating is the apartment of the centurion.  His room was always the largest and alway...
Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Vindolanda 2026 - Day Seven

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Wally World.   Spent a good part of the day chasing a wall.   The barracks room we were in was constructed circa 213 AD.  On top of a differ...
Monday, May 18, 2026

Vindolanda 2026 - Day Six

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Guess I didn't take any pictures today. Nice weather, steady progress.  But I didn't find anything novel.  Just another spear point ...
Saturday, May 16, 2026

Vindolanda 2026 - Day Five

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Finds and Features. Everyone at the fence and "out in the world" is always interested in whether I've found some clever artifa...
Thursday, May 14, 2026

Vindolanda 2026 - Day Four

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Usual parade of rain coat on/off/on/off but we got about 90% of a day in. It was fun to have a full day of actual archaeology, although I di...
Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Vindolanda 2026 - Day Three

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Weather was The Usual.  Alternating sun, clouds, rain, driving rain, birds singing happily.  You get used to it after a while.  Here's t...
Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Vindolanda 2026 - Day Two

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Another day of "The Archaeology of Archaeology", sifting through refill layers after that 1980 excavation.  This had been carried ...
Monday, May 11, 2026

Vindolanda 2026 - Day One

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Back to work.    Day One was part orientation, part drudge work.  The are of current interest had a brief and somewhat chaotic excavation in...

Looking 2000 years into the past and 40 into the Future

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Writing things in advance poses a challenge.  This applies particularly when you are jumping time zones and anticipating events yet to come....
Friday, February 6, 2026

Pensive

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When I write things move along pretty quickly.  I am after all approaching 3000 of these casual essays, so they clearly don't take all t...
Friday, October 3, 2025

Vindolanda Wraps for the Season - And, What Was Going on in The Dark Ages?

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The excavations at both of the sites run by the Vindolanda Trust have now wrapped it up for the year.  Some really good work done at each of...
Monday, September 1, 2025

Illogical Measures

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There are times when the world seems particularly illogical.  Among the many reasons people give for this, our system of measuring things ge...
Monday, June 23, 2025

Hello and Goodbye from the Dark Ages

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Well, Dark Ages is not considered an appropriate label any longer.  Sub-Roman or Post-Roman are the preferred terms. I've been puzzling ...