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I'm sure there are depiction tha tcould be interpreted as round scale, now we have an actual artifact to say 'this is so'
Don't ask me to find it right now though...I'm sure some one will know though!
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I noticed that weapons have found too. Do we know what sort of weapons yet?
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Apologies for using your photo Caballo, but needs must :wink:
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What is the object in the right of the picture that looks like a pugio grip...right above the large copper alloy disc??
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Amazing. Tell us more.
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In my initial post on this topic, I inadvertantly misplaced the site of the dig. It is, in fact, within the fortress walls, in the south-west quadrant, immediately behind the Priory Hotel (hence the name, "Priory Field" - bit of a give-away, that. Doh!). I'm afraid I got a bit disorientated in reaching the side, having to climb over a fence (with permission!) I got confused between the site of the excavation and the newly discovered buildings that have been found further out (though these last are not part of the excavation at all). I hope this clears up any confusion. Mea culpa!
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Quote:In my initial post on this topic, I inadvertantly misplaced the site of the dig. It is, in fact, within the fortress walls, in the south-west quadrant, immediately behind the Priory Hotel (hence the name, "Priory Field" - bit of a give-away, that. Doh!).
Makes a whole lot more sense now. In a rampart-back building by any chance?
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Hmmm, good thing I'm stupid, so I never noticed that. I understood it to be in the fortress..... :roll:
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Quote:Makes a whole lot more sense now. In a rampart-back building by any chance?
Don't think so. The Priory hotel is just across the main road from the Museum, which lies virtually in the centre of the fortress. The Priory Field is immediately behind the hotel grounds and the fortress wall is then some way away across an empty field. The amphitheatre, of course, is outside the wall. I cannot imagine how I could think that the site was outside the fortress walls! Put it down to an early(ish) rise and advancing years.
From what I could see of the dig, the building in question looks to have a lot of small rooms - some sort of warehouse, perhaps? It certainly does make a lot more sense to find this stuff inside the fortress, rather than in a building outside!
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I suppose it's far too soon to speculate whether the copper-disc armor was for man or horse?
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I would say so (i.e. too early). If you look at the pictures posted above, you can see that there is only a small portion of the scale armour visible. If it were horse armour, that would mean that there aught to be an awful lot more of it under the dirt somewhere. What is visible seems to be about the size of a human torso - but that is really guesswork (on my part) and I think we are going to have to be patient and wait for this to be conserved and then published.
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Quote:and then published
Not to be impatient but that is the part where we wait 2-3 years. bummer that it takes that much time or longer to get information out there.
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My first thought was horse.
Anyway, just to clarify, the trench is in the south western corner of the fort, I've marked it on this map for you.
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It's in a field that has only been used for agricultural or grazing purposes as far as can be established. The 2008 dig revealed evidence that there had been an agricultural building of some sort built using robbed out stone and the hard standing afforded by the flagstones at some stage.
Obviously, there are several phases of roman building work to sort out to get a clearer picture. The final phase seems to have involved laying a large flag floor over some previously existing walls, turning some of the smaller rooms into a larger workshop.
Anna's taken lots of pics of small finds, as well as pics of the segmentata and 'disc squamata' in situ before they were lifted so I'll post those for your perusal when I get back to the UK.
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That disc-armor-riveted-to-leather is going to make some SCA people very happy. They've been making quick-and-cheap armor that way for decades, and much chided for its historical inauthenticity.
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Quote:Quote:and then published
Not to be impatient but that is the part where we wait 2-3 years. bummer that it takes that much time or longer to get information out there.
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What do you want, proper archaeological conservation and analysis of this assemblage, or a Christies job?
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Quote:What do you want, proper archaeological conservation and analysis of this assemblage, or a Christies job?
Well that's two extremes. How about items being excavated 20 years before, and then finally getting published. There is such big fanfare where these things get pulled from the ground, and then we don't hear anything again for years....or decades. Hopefully this thread will keep little drabs of information coming out to give us some hope that these won't be forgotten.
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