[LostTribe]

The remains of two Roman villas have been found under a football pitch in Wiltshire in what is believed to be one of the most significant archaeological discoveries since the early 1960s.

[LostTribe]

Bump.

[Cultural Jihad]

[LostTribe]

I believe this helps point out the relative ease with which people of the med. area could travel great distances to have a "summer place" in Britain. While it does not make the case that Jesus visited NW Europe during his lifetime, it does help establish that it would not have taken "exterrestial means" for him to have done so.

The Cotswolds, the region where this was found is west of London, in the region of Oxford University, famous for it's archeology department, and where the Ashmolean Museum is located. I think this site is on the old Roman travel route between London and what the Brits today call "The West", where so much mining activity took place during Jesus time.

Joseph of Arimethia was in the shipping business big time, hauling tin from "The West" of England to Palestine, and probably to Rome as well. As a member of the Sanhedrin, he undoubtedly had lots of business clout (and of course owned the tomb in which Jesus was buried, briefly).

[goody2shooz]

Archaeologists from Bristol and Cardiff universities, who are carrying out the excavation, have also exhumed the body of a Roman teenage boy, whose head had been cut off and placed at his feet.

Interesting. The head of a Roman household, the Pater familias, legally held the power of life and death over members of his family and the household staff including slaves.

For example, the wife of Claudius Ceasar was executed on his order. She was beheaded by a Praetorian guard.

I don't know how archeologists at the site would have determined the teenager had his head separated from his body after death; it seems something a forensic pathologist would have to determine. But I can imagine an enraged Roman father or grandfather killing a young man for dishonoring the family in some way.

Roman writings of the period record such incidents.

[LostTribe]

This helps locate the archological site. I've spent quite a bit of time in the region, both while doing post-Doctoral work at Oxford University in Biblican Archeology, and many other times on weekend breaks from business trips to London. Was at Stonehenge before they fenced it and you could walk around freely among the stones.

[You Gotta Be Kidding Me]

"Roman Villa"............."Bob Villa"............Hmmmmmmmm..................."This old Roman House" episode in the making?

Bob Villa ---"Norm will repair the plumbing in the vomitorium, while I talk to the architect about converting the slave quarters to a new family room and entertainment center complete with colleseum style surround sound."

[mewzilla]

Cool beans. Thanks for the post.

[blam]

I think you are familiar with this area, huh?

Ancient Ax Found In Harstad

[Young Werther]

Sounds like the opening for a summer movie.

The skeletal remains of the young Roman teenager are taken to Okford for further examination. One of the professors, after examining the skull places back on the examinating table. However, he has placed it between the shoulder blades. Ought oh!

The proefessor goes into an office and begins to write in his journal and......

The title: "Strega" {Witch!}

This can be a doozy! Who want's to produce it.

[RightWhale]

a late Roman burial rite

Standard procedure for vampires.

[livius]

What an interesting article! A few years ago, I was in...well, I forget where, but I was looking for a hypocaust (heated Roman floor) that was a local sight. Carefully following the signs through a thick wood, I burst onto a field - right into the midst of a cricket match at what was, to judge by the shouting provoked by my appearance, a rather crucial moment. I hastily retreated back into the shrubbery and was later told that people had turned the signs around as a practical joke. However, when I tried again by another route, I found it, and it was actually very near the playing field.

I also visited a Roman site in Spain, in Alcalá de Henares, that is being excavated after it was found under a site where they were planning to construct a sports complex. I suppose the fact that the land had long been cleared and is usually relatively level accounts for connection between Roman sites and playing fields.

[Lady Jag]

Fishbourne is amazing. This must be mind blowing.

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