Digging Vindolanda: Football injury

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Football injury

Preparations for the trip all seem to be in place, but a deep thigh bruise picked up in a soccer game last weekend is causing me some serious discomfort, six days later. Half of my right thigh is various shades of purple, yellow and green after a deliberate late tackle by a Brimfield defender. Hopefully the remaining week will see the muscle stiffness dissipate, because if the digging started now it would be next to impossible. The silver lining is that I get to watch the Monaco Grand Prix first thing tomorrow morning; no more football for me until after Vindolanda.

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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.