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Greetings,
a couple of clips from Discovery Channel's Moments in Time...Letters from the Roman Front, one covering Mons Grapius and the other training, punishment and raids......all connected to Vindolanda of course...!
First clip
Second clip
I haven't come across any others as yet...
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Sorry Cristina, but the links don't work... 
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Quote:Sorry Cristina, but the links don't work...
They do now..... :wink:
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Quote:a couple of clips from Discovery Channel's Moments in Time...Letters from the Roman Front, one covering Mons Grapius and the other training, punishment and raids......all connected to Vindolanda of course...!
My factoid detectors kept going off all the way through, not helped by the fact that The Incredible Vanishing James Woods always makes me think, well, creepy villain.
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Quote:Arthes:1wtwbp4y Wrote:a couple of clips from Discovery Channel's Moments in Time...Letters from the Roman Front, one covering Mons Grapius and the other training, punishment and raids......all connected to Vindolanda of course...!
My factoid detectors kept going off all the way through, not helped by the fact that The Incredible Vanishing James Woods always makes me think, well, creepy villain.
Mike Bishop
...I thought the testudo and pilum throwing sequence was brilliantly performed....!
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Not looking to the way it presents the background and history, i really couldn't stop to laugh about the "camouflag segmentatae", the really big and not to close helmet of the leader or the ..."big" sword of one of the celts....
Just great 
And this sentence "raves and rocks and the romans"....just great.
I wasn't able to understand what they called the shield wall they performed against the spears. Did they really called it testudo?
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Who are the talking heads? I recognize the presenter, James Woods, and Tony (A.R.) Birley, the bearded guy.
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Is the younger talking head one of the younger Birleys?
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Could be, I'm not sure they are actually involved. Usually when one talks of the younger Birleys, it's in reference to Eric Birley, A.R.Birley's dad. A.R. and his digging brother are then the young ones.
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Quote:Could be, I'm not sure they are actually involved. Usually when one talks of the younger Birleys, it's in reference to Eric Birley, A.R.Birley's dad. A.R. and his digging brother are then the young ones.
It's a young Birley for sure (Andy). From the Vindolanda Dig forum that was posted today:
http://z9.invisionfree.com/We_Dig_Vindo ... id=6495657
http://z9.invisionfree.com/We_Dig_Vindo ... id=6495969
http://z9.invisionfree.com/We_Dig_Vindo ... owtopic=13
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Oh, cool. It's a full-fledged family tradition then! Boy, that guy has some reputations to live up to.
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Quote:Oh, cool. It's a full-fledged family tradition then! Boy, that guy has some reputations to live up to.
They were all there in the Timewatch on Hadrian's Wall the other week. That's what made me kind-of-recognise the one under discussion.
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Quote:Not looking to the way it presents the background and history, i really couldn't stop to laugh about the "camouflag segmentatae", the really big and not to close helmet of the leader or the ..."big" sword of one of the celts....
Just great
I overlooked the glaringly obvious ....strirrup straps for one....and the huge sword :wink:
I'm not 100% on some of the earlier Roman kit anyway, what looked reasonable to me might be  hock: :evil: to some of you...... :oops:
Quote:I wasn't able to understand what they called the shield wall they performed against the spears. Did they really called it testudo?
No, they called it the tortoise.....!
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