Vindolanda Trust
Posted on 07/01/2015 4:25:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Nowhere gets you closer to the Romans on Hadrian's Wall than the fort and settlement of Vindolanda, the extraordinary hoard of personal artefacts gives you a unique insight into the lives of people living here 2000 years ago. The latest addition to the collection of artefacts from the current excavation has certainly made an impression on everyone. Someone 2000 years ago quite literally put their foot in it and as a result a volunteer digging at the site has unearthed a tile with a clear imprint of a human foot that accidentally, or perhaps mischievously stood on the freshly made object.
...student Mel Benard who is digging at Vindolanda with a Canadian Field School from the University of Western Ontario in Canada.... who was delighted with the discovery explained "this was the first artefact that I had found, I knew straight away that it was a footprint and it is so exciting to have discovered something which links you directly to that individual nearly 2000 years later".
Many thousands of tiles have been found at Vindolanda, some occasionally with the imprint of an animal left behind but this is the first time a human print has been discovered at the site. "This find is really extraordinary", explains Co-Director of the University Field School, Dr Elizabeth Greene, "it brings full circle the story that Vindolanda has to tell. The thousands of leather shoes from this site (over 6,000) give us a unique perspective on the people who lived at Vindolanda but this footprint highlights even more that archaeology has the potential to illuminate the lives of otherwise voiceless individuals from antiquity".
...Dr Meyer went on to say "I imagine the boy or girl who stepped in this newly produced tile was in more than a little trouble".
(Excerpt) Read more at vindolanda.com ...
Vindolanda Trust
Bigfoot
It would be really cool to go on one of these digs as a student or amateur and find something really significant.
so cool. sometimes i look around and try to guess what some guy 2,000 years from now will find of my stuff. not much i am afraid.
It would be really cool to go on one of these digs as a student or amateur and find something really significant. —
Fat chance of getting recognized. Professor gets credit, maybe unless you ‘apply for extra credit’.
#5 Your stuff will still be radioactive....
just be sure clear your browser history
"I imagine the boy or girl who stepped in this newly produced tile was in more than a little trouble".
No, I didn't read the article...lol.
Vindolanda[note 1] was a Roman auxiliary fort (castrum) just south of Hadrian’s Wall in northern England. Located near the modern village of Bardon Mill, it guarded the Stanegate, the Roman road from the River Tyne to the Solway Firth. It is noted for the Vindolanda tablets, among the most important finds of military and private correspondence (written on wooden tablets) found anywhere in the Roman Empire.
Source: Wikipedia
Interesting. The footprint doesn’t look right to me. I’m no archeologist, but it seems to my untutored eyes that the print should be depressed.
:’)
Thank you, but I'm not getting anything at that link.
Thank you!
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