Posted on 03/08/2020 9:50:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Dangling from an abseil rope 30ft up a river gorge rock face, archaeologist Jon Allison certainly felt close to the Romans who had worked on that same spot 1,800 years ago.
They left their mark in the shape of graffiti composed of inscriptions and carved faces, and studying the messages produced the sensation of the quarry work gang communicating across the centuries.
The carvings reveal that soldiers of the Second and 20th legions were detailed to operate in the quarry as part of the major repairing and re-building of Hadrian's Wall.
And as a serving soldier himself for 22 years, Jon imagined how the Roman troopers would have felt about being assigned to a task which was both hard graft and risky...
Jon, a former Army rock climbing instructor, took photographs of the inscriptions, which were used to create a 3D record of the writings near Gelt Wood, 5.5km south of the Wall near Brampton.
"...the inscriptions had not been inspected in detail since the early 1980s, when the path that led to them dropped into the river below.
(Excerpt) Read more at chroniclelive.co.uk ...
:^) I’ve got Robin WIlliamson’s “Scotland Yet” streaming right this sec. :^)
SAVE & READ
For a good time call DVII-DXXXIII-MMXXVII
And “Call Jenny Cenna at VIII VI VII V III O IX”
Thanks.
Thanks for this fantastic resource. I wish there were a way to pin this post for future reading. I’m not sure how much time you have on your hands, but these links could be the basis of a series of books that I, for one, would buy.
Can you feel the bern
CENTURION: What’s this, then? ‘Romanes Eunt Domus’? ‘People called Romanes they go the house’?
BRIAN: It— it says, ‘Romans, go home’.
CENTURION: No, it doesn’t. What’s Latin for ‘Roman’? Come on!
BRIAN: Aah!
CENTURION: Come on!
BRIAN: ‘R— Romanus’?
CENTURION: Goes like...?
BRIAN: ‘Annus’?
CENTURION: Vocative plural of ‘annus’ is...?
BRIAN: Eh. ‘Anni’?
CENTURION: ‘Romani’. ‘Eunt’? What is ‘eunt’?
BRIAN: ‘Go’. Let—
CENTURION: Conjugate the verb ‘to go’.
BRIAN: Uh. ‘Ire’. Uh, ‘eo’. ‘Is’. ‘It’. ‘Imus’. ‘Itis’. ‘Eunt’.
CENTURION: So ‘eunt’ is...?
BRIAN: Ah, huh, third person plural, uh, present indicative. Uh, ‘they go’.
CENTURION: But ‘Romans, go home’ is an order, so you must use the...?
BRIAN: The... imperative!
CENTURION: Which is...?
BRIAN: Umm! Oh. Oh. Um, ‘i’. ‘I’!
CENTURION: How many Romans?
BRIAN: Ah! ‘I’— Plural. Plural. ‘Ite’. ‘Ite’.
CENTURION: ‘Ite’.
BRIAN: Ah. Eh.
CENTURION: ‘Domus’?
BRIAN: Eh.
CENTURION: Nominative?
BRIAN: Oh.
CENTURION: ‘Go home’? This is motion towards. Isn’t it, boy?
BRIAN: Ah. Ah, dative, sir! Ahh! No, not dative! Not the dative, sir! No! Ah! Oh, the... accusative! Accusative! Ah! ‘Domum’, sir! ‘Ad domum’! Ah! Oooh! Ah!
CENTURION: Except that ‘domus’ takes the...?
BRIAN: The locative, sir!
CENTURION: Which is...?!
BRIAN: ‘Domum’.
CENTURION: ‘Domum’.
BRIAN: Aaah! Ah.
CENTURION: ‘Um’. Understand?
BRIAN: Yes, sir.
CENTURION: Now, write it out a hundred times.
BRIAN: Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caesar, sir.
CENTURION: Hail Caesar. If it’s not done by sunrise, I’ll cut your balls off.
BRIAN: Oh, thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caesar and everything, sir! Oh. Mmm!
Finished!
ROMAN SOLDIER STIG: Right. Now don’t do it again.
LOL!!!!!!
What real indication is there to believe they were made by the workers who built the walls?
LOL!
Bush Fecit IX/XI
“Trumpatus’s Fault”
Claudius was here!
Aedificare murum
Romulus is my Centurion, only 4380 days and a wake up.
Short Timer
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