Digging Vindolanda: Flying Archaeologist

Sunday, June 9, 2013

Flying Archaeologist

As noted below, an episode of "The Flying Archaeologist" was focused on Vindolanda, and they were around for filming during the week I was digging. A separate news story describing the main ideas in the episode ended up on the BBC website: BBC story on Vindolanda and yours truly is in the second image of the four shown within the story. Fame at last. The programme was shown in the UK in April 2013; there's a 3 minute clip from it on the page linked to above.

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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.