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Seriously.
In addition to the cooking pots, a report in BBC History says "Archaeologists have also found up to three rare military tems on the (Draper St) site indicating that the area may have been home to Roman army officers or their descendants. These include a magnificent miltary intaglio (showing an imperial eagle flanked by two legionary standards), a possible centurion's swagger stick, and a caltrop"
Other finds (apart from the great cooking pots) are three childrens shoes, fragments of dozens of other shoes, a second century AD pipe clay figurine of a mother goddess, and a bear skull.
Nothing on display yet at the Museum of London bar the astonishing pots...more as I can find it out.
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Is that the site featured in Jan/Feb British Archaeology magazine?
The one with the child buried next ot a door. the child has some oddly animalistic features to it skull
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There was a hord of pots and things found there, right beside a concrete pile sunk in the sixties? Also a tripod stand for cooking over a fire!
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Yes, thats the excavation. More and more stuff seems to be coming out of that dig!
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Sounds really interessting. I heared never from that excavation.
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Thanks- the reference was in the BBC History magazine. Not sure of their source- but assume one of the other wood finds?
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Intriguing! It would be great if that was a classic Piazza Armerina style T-shape! I wonder, I wonder...
"the child has some oddly animalistic features to it skull" :?:
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It isn't mentioned in 'British Archaeology magazine either, but there is a wooden ruler featured. :?:
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I can't post a picture, but it says in the caption - :
Ruler, with semi circles at 3, 6, and 10 roman inches and a circle at 8.
The wood (to be examined) seems exotic; if so,
The ruler may have belonged to a carpenter from elsewhere in the empire
(8 and 10 inches are standard Roman plank sizes)
This is a quote from the article in British Archaeology magazine
Jan - Feb 2008 edition, which has a very good article.
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