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| Tagmatium Rules | Aug 5 2006, 11:24 AM Post #1 |
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On the 6rd of August I'm off to Silchester, a Roman town, for the week. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silchester_Roman_Town It's an archaelogical course that sort of acts like a preparation and training for the University course I hope to start in September, pending grades, although it's not part of the actual course. The place is a field school for the University of Reading, amongst others. I shall be camping there, so therefore will have no internet access what so ever |
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| Nevareion | Aug 5 2006, 01:55 PM Post #2 |
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Cool! Enjoy it. I'm jealous! |
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| Joe Bobs | Aug 6 2006, 06:18 PM Post #3 |
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:o Wow that's sounds incredible! I wanted to be an archeologist until I was about 15 and got all these silly literary ideas in my head. :P The closest I've been to is that church in York... I forget the name. Anywho, have fun Tag! |
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| Tagmatium Rules | Aug 14 2006, 01:12 PM Post #4 |
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And I'm back. I had a bloody brilliant time there, everyone was decent and welcoming. I had a bit of a panic actually getting there, as I missed my booked train by a minute (I got there as it was pulling away from the station :( ), but I got there safe and sound, albeit an hour later than planned. It was a very interesting time, although it was the last week (I hadn't realised that :P) and the excavation was winding up. Still, I found loads of bits of pot and bone, and one copper-alloy stud which counts as a "small find". In Calleva (which is the Roman town), they're now onto the earliest Roman layer (40-60AD) and in places on to the late Iron Age, prior to the Roman invasion. When I was roaming on the south wall, taking pictures, I found a nice piece of Samian ware (the Roman equivalent of the best cutlery, only taken out at Christmas), which I pocketed. It was out of context and no data could be taken from it. I am no looter. :P The good thing about arriving in the last week is the parties to celebrate the end of dig. I've taken a load of pictures, mainly of the walls as I didn't want to risk my camera on the dig site because of the dust, which got everywhere, and because I'd probably drop it and break it. If anyone's interested, I can load up the pictures and put them in this thread. |
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| Tagmatium Rules | Sep 5 2006, 09:59 AM Post #5 |
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Some photographs from my time in Calleva Artebatum. Posted Image My accommodation for the week. It wasn't too bad, held up properly during the high winds we had, although it moved a lot. Sadly, I was on a down hill slope with a large rock in the bottom of my back when lying down, so I didn't sleep that well all week :P Posted Image The dig site itself. It's of the area I was working in, mainly scratching away wretched silt from a flint pebble surface. Wasn't that fun after a while. You can see the building fairly clearly. It runs from the ditch in the foreground (a drainage ditch for one of the Roman roads) in a pentagon shape. There is also a small sed (or annex as it was called) on the eastern side. They had a photo tower up, but I really didn't want to climb four metres on a rickety aluminium scaffolding construction. Posted Image A picture of the main Roman road, which runs north to south. You can see the different layers of construction in it quite clearly. Posted Image This one is better. You can see beam slots from some of the houses, and that large hole is a well. One of the reasons they think Silchester was abandoned was because there is no natural spring in the area (it's almost a small plateau), so the Romans had to dig loads of wells. After a while, these began to become too close to cesspits, and in the end there was no drinkable water on the site. So everyone buggered off. It's only a theory, but it seems reasonable when you actually look at the site and see how close the wells and cesspits are. Posted Image "Tent town" Posted Image Northern wall Posted Image Northern gate in the 300s AD Posted Image Northern gate in the 2000s AD |
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| Nevareion | Sep 5 2006, 12:29 PM Post #6 |
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Very cool, thanks for posting them tag :) |
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| Tagmatium Rules | Sep 6 2006, 08:15 AM Post #7 |
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Posted Image More old wall, just to get across the height of the structure. Posted Image A nice picture of the typical weather we had during the last week of the dig. The only day it was properly sunny was the first, and I got nicely sunburnt. On the last day, it pissed down and was very miserable and was therefore difficult to get the tent down. Posted Image Lump of Ceramic Building Material lying on the ground on the southern wall. Posted Image More wall, with plants growing on it. Posted Image The southern gate. Posted Image The local pub. Spent most nights there :P |
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| Orioni | Jun 28 2008, 12:43 AM Post #8 |
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I recently read Tagmatium is returning to his dig in a few weeks time. |
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