Digging Vindolanda: Ash moving in, temporarily?

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Ash moving in, temporarily?

A news report just came out on the BBC website, saying winds over the Atlantic are expected to push the ash cloud over parts of the UK from Sunday to Tuesday, closing some airports again. The UK Met office will now be publishing 5-day predictions of ash cloud movement, so that's another site to monitor. Fortunately, the current prediction is for a strong south easterly wind from midweek, which would push the ash well north of Britain. Until I actually land in Manchester on Thursday morning there will be no guarantees.

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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.