Digging Vindolanda: Across the pond

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Across the pond

We landed in Manchester this morning, got the train to Leeds and will be spending a week in Yorkshire before heading north to Scotland for another week. After that we'll spend the weekend at the Twice Brewed Inn before the family departs and the digging week begins on the 16th. Hoping for the weather to return to normal; the UK as a whole saw the wettest June on record, including some flooding around Vindolanda. Work in the North Field has progressed well despite the soggy conditions and frequent lost days, looking forward to working there again.

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Vindolanda is a Roman fort just south of Hadrian's wall. The first fort on the site dates to the late 1st century AD and was followed by a succession of later forts, built one on top of the other, over the next ~300 years. Adding to the site's interest, an active and large civilian settlement or "vicus" adjoined the fort for some of this time. The Vindolanda excavation is therefore revealing key information not only about the military history of Britain under the Romans, but also about the lives of ordinary people.