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Christ might be interested to see what had been written about Him! and possibly suggest a few typos.
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we see the clump of trees up close from the Vindolanda shot, but here we are now on the wall itself.The Wal travels east toward Procolita and then Cilvrinum© Pertinax © 2003-2006
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this is an orientation shot we are stood in Vindolanda - we are looking NE , the clump of trees to the top left of the photo lie to the East of Vircovicium as seen in the next image.© Pertinax © 2003-2006
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a ventilated sub-floor to protect the stored produce in this wet and windy spot.Immediateley adjacent to Harian's Wall , this was probably a two floored building with sophisticated underfloor ventilation to keep the "scarabeoum" out of the "frumentum".© Pertinax © 2003-2006
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moving westward from previous shot-but now looking to the west, here we see how the natural features were incorporated into the wall-it runs along the top of the scarp above the tarn.The weather is closing in on me fast and the mud was an icey slush.© Pertinax © 2003-2006
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thank you Sir! Hail Caeser and everything!
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Hadrian's Wall (toward Vircovicium)
Pertinax commented on Pertinax's gallery image in Everything Else
Sextus you are not alone ,Favonius contacted me along similar lines! -
Oh, lets just go to the stoning... no-one is to stone anyone , until I blow this whistle!
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I have moved one milecastle to the west from my previous shot-not too far as the crow flies , but look at the terrain! This escarpment hill and valley topography goes on and on.© Pertinax © 2003-2006
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well they are great supporters of the staus quo.
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blessed are the cheesemakers though it may be manufacturers of dairy products generally
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from my own shelves? 1. 14 inch bowie knife 2. medical equipment in wrap 3. hydrastis canadiensis eye salve rendered into a solidified block. if I could trade? 1. Gladius for the knife if the steel was ok caligae would be the thing I suppose?
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thank you very much indeed! I will add and build from the blog entry .
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Ok -but this place is COLD in winter. Here are you directions- 1.get on plane and fly to Manchester 2.get a train to Carlisle and enjoy the scenery. 3.hire a car-drive East along Stanegate, the Roman Road towards Newcastle. 4.drive to the pub "Twice Brewed" on the roadside of Stanegate near Haltwhistle town. 5.drink "Black Bull" stout and retire for night. 6. drive 1 mile to Vindolanda site. 7.enter temple and offer sacrifice to Dea Fortuna! afterwards drive 3 miles to Vircovicium and walk on the length of wall I have posted in the gallery. -
a little hazy but what a glorious place! Vircovicium is behind the trees to the centre of the image-looking west toward Newcastle. This is the "picture postcard " shot of the wall , as a child when I saw this view open up before me I leapt back to 130AD and left a part of my soul there. Oh ,scale -I forgot the wall section here is about 6 feet high-about half its original height.As FVC points out two distant sheep give some idea of scale.
© Pertinax © 2003-2006
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the newest dig at the site to the extreme SW of Vindolanda.Once again a new site brings more exciting information to us.Possibly the oldest fortress remains on the site , perhaps this is Flavius Ceralis' base and the home of Minimus the mouse. Minimus sum! mus sum! There is also evidence of a "palace" structure-in finish quality if not vast size, the inference being that the Emperor Hadrian would have been a possible local inhabitant whilst overseeing the Wall project. -
the view west across the early third century new barracks.These were built for the Gallic auxiliaries.So please bear in mind we are now as far from the Flavian works as we ourselves are from the American Declaration of Independence.© Pertinax © 2003-2006
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looking east across Vindolanda. In the foreground the civilian buildings outside the walls-the west gate is near the tree.The floor plan in the foreground is the "corridor house" built by a retired centurion immediatley adjacent to the fort.These are "late " buildings, Severan era or later.© Pertinax © 2003-2006
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a modern rebuild to full Hadrianic spec.At Vindolanda,if you add this to my images of the wall in situ (to follow) you will comprehend what an excellent detterent this was.© Pertinax © 2003-2006
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the original wall technology as ordered by Hadrian , upgraded by "seat of pants" experience to a full blown if lesser guage stone wall incorporating milecastles and turrets.This is what , as a Votadinii, Selgovii or Dumnonii you might have faced around 120)AD. This is looking at the spot where Favius Cerealis orderd the burning of his admin records-of which a few miraculously "survived" to our delight.© Pertinax © 2003-2006
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built as new to the local designs previously excavated at Vindolanda.© Pertinax © 2003-2006
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From the time of Flavius Cerealis. To the SE of the Vindolanda site.© Pertinax © 2003-2006
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The site on a cold misty day , home to Batavians , Sarmatians , Gauls and Romans. Hadrians Wall is about a mile and one half away upslope from this site.This view is North by North West -
The digging work at Vindolanda is an ongoing process.It must be remembered that the fort area has building remains from the Flavian period onwards, with continuous evidence of construction and rebuilding through a very active Severan usage onto the time of Constantine and beyond. So Flavius Cerealis' burning of the Vindolanda tablets is a very early episode in pre-Hadrianic years (97-105 AD). Five wooden forts and two stone ones occupied the site (in various positions ) until a wholesale rebuild in 213 for the incoming Fourth Cohort of Gauls,. My gallery images show the pre-hadrianic baths and a modern rebuild of the original turf wall as much of Hadrian's Wall was originally planned . Vindolanda sits about a half mile below (Stanegate road) whereas the Wall and Vercovicium are a half mile above the road. So Vindolanda is not on the Wall but nearby. We have images of the Severan occupation and later civilian ruins outside the fort perimeter . Notably we see new work on the site of one of the original Flavian Forts lying a little way to the SW of the later stone buildings. I also indicate the site of Flavius' bonfire.Other images are self explanatory, the sub-floor construction of heated rooms and the layout of granary foundations for ventilation and dryness. There is an image to show the relative position of the Forts and several of the Wall itself and the spectacular scenery.Vercovicium is a much more exposed site , quite what the Frisian auxiliaries thought of the wind in this area I cant imagine. The Wall itself has a long history of use, abandonment and re-occupation Salway is the best general academic contextual work (Oxford History of Roman Britain).The physical structure varied in material type and nature-in some remote spots-steel rigg (which I will show) the natural features alone are fearsome enough to deter assault. I did a short 5 mile walk on the day I took the shots -and it was no picnic! I have been fortunate to visit the Wall, Pompeii (and related sites) and Thebes. The graffiti at all three sites is the one thing that makes you root yourself in the past for a few moments, the Valley of the Kings was very dissapointing a treadmill of miserable, over heated tourists who looked like they knew they "should" be there but didnt know why-I saw Roman tourist graffiti and it was the most real thing about the whole experience. What an Empire-I havent had the good fortune to go to Leptis Magna or Palmyra-what distances they covered! ive posted a number of images to start, more to follow.Not everything I mention here has arrived on site yet.WE will also see some interesting "loaded dice" and re-produced fabrics and tools. I am aware that many members are non-brittanic , so if there is any confusion regarding locality I will post maps if required.
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I have visited Vindolanda to look at the existing excavations , the reinvented wall sections and buildings and also the new digging in progress . I will be posting mainly in my Blog with some images in the gallery area (using my "historic Sites" album).The visit also took in Vercovicium (Housesteads Fort) and the most famous section of Hadrian's Wall between Housesteads and Steel Rigg.Incredibly the weather was quite reasonable for late January, though the ground frost did not melt all day-this meant that the mud stayed frozen ! Please be patient if you are interested in this topic as it will take a while to "build" . note:initial shots now in place