Remains of the Roman fort at Caister where an excavator was used in error.
Posted on 04/16/2007 7:09:32 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Norfolk Archaeology Unit (NAU) was commissioned to carry out a dig last year ahead of plans to build houses on a garden bordering the north-east corner of the fort at Uplands Avenue. A nationally important site, the fort was one of 12 built by the Romans stetching to the south coast, with the others in Norfolk being at Burgh Castle and Brancaster. The area in question was covered by a thin layer of tarmac, yet beneath that it was straight down into undisturbed Roman deposits allowing a fresh picture to be built up of an area stretching from the fort's outer defences.
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Remains of the Roman fort at Caister where an excavator was used in error.
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Posted on 06/19/2006 11:14:44 AM EDT by SunkenCiv
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Woops!!!!!
My recollection is that the word “caster” frequently refers to Roman forts in Britain.
“On a scale of 1 to 10 in terms of damage to Norfolk's archaeology, this is a 10,” he said. “This was the first chance to dig a trench across the defences at Caister fort since the 1960s. It was a huge opportunity.
“The archaeology in that area has been destroyed,” he added. “We lost the opportunity to go through the different layers very carefully and recover the pottery and objects that would have helped us review the dating of the fort defences.
They probably wondered what all that old stuff was they kept digging up.
Probably anglicized the Latin word for camp: castra.
As xone said, Latin is “castra”; Lancaster is among those using the word, and (obviously) castle is also somehow an outgrowth. :’)
How many professional archeology committees responsible for digging at archeological sites even have the phone number of a trenching machine rental company?
This was a major screwup.
Does the digger get a set of steak knives to go with the blender he unearthed?
Yeah, it’s a little weird. I think the project is rescue archaeology ahead of development, but maybe not, as it has gone on for a year. Otherwise, the trench may have been intended for a different spot adjacent to the dig site, in order to accelerate the real work.
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