Vindolanda Charitable Trust
Posted on 09/25/2022 6:23:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Vindolanda (translated as “white field” or “white moor”) was a Roman auxiliary fort, situated on the fringes of the Roman Empire near Hadrian’s Wall to guard a major highway called the Stanegate.
No less than nine Roman forts were built of timber or stone at Vindolanda from around AD 85 to AD 370, creating one of the most complex archaeological sites in Britain and a unique cultural legacy of frontier life.
Today, Vindolanda is an active archaeological site (open to volunteers), with excavations previously uncovering thousands of perfectly preserved shoes, textiles, wooden objects, and the Vindolanda tablets (the oldest surviving documents in Britain that date from the 1st and 2nd century AD).
The researchers were excavating a Hadrianic workshop floor buried beneath the remains of a schola (officers’ club house), when they found a rare copper alloy cornu mouthpiece dated to around AD 120-128.
The cornu was carried by the cornicen (horn-blower) who coded the general’s orders into signals and broadcasted them over the field during battles.
The object, which is a first of its kind in the Vindolanda collection, has now completed the conservation process and is undergoing further research. Cornua are depicted in many Roman settings on imagery with military, ceremonial and entertainment use such as Trajan’s Column in Rome...
Dr Andrew Birley, Director of Excavations at the Trust commented “Finds like this bring another dimension to our appreciation of life and the ruins left behind, a soundscape to go with the smellscape of the Hadrianic forts and remains and it is apt that we made this discovery in the year that we celebrate 1900 years since the building of Hadrian’s Wall commenced”.
(Excerpt) Read more at heritagedaily.com ...
Looks like a giant golf tee.
Eventually the Scots arrived from Ireland and it was a similar mouthpiece that gave them the idea for the tee.
Looks like they found old Dizzy Gallespie’s mouth piece.
Cheeky!
In a few thousand years, when digging through our castoffs and lost items, I wonder what they will think of us?
They might get embarrassed and rebury everything and pretend they found nothing.
Could we blame them?
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