Digging Vindolanda: Volcano watching

Monday, May 10, 2010

Volcano watching

Just 10 days to go now before I leave. Getting excited to see family, and start digging, but the volcano-that-appears-to-have-no-name-judging-by-news-reports, Eyjafjallajoekull, remains literally a dark cloud on the horizon. The eruption is not as violent as it was when it first erupted back in mid-April, but if the wind is in the wrong direction it's still closing airports. Keeping a daily watch on the Icelandic Met Office website, which has a page giving all the latest info in English; hopefully I'll be lucky...

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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.