02-16-2011, 01:16 AM
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Roman child\'s footprints
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02-16-2011, 01:20 AM
Wow, now that is amazing. I am guessing there must have been some solidifying of the level for this to have been found? I will have to look out for that name next time I drive down....through all the roadworks....
Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus! * Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar? * Confidence is a good thing! Overconfidence is too much of a good thing.
[b]Legio XIIII GMV. (Q. Magivs)RMRS Remember Atuatuca! Vengence will be ours! Titus Flavius Germanus Batavian Coh I Byron Angel 
02-16-2011, 03:33 AM
"...archaeologists were unable to save the foor prints..."
Hmm...no one heard of an old fashioned plaster cast...or dry ice..? Seems to have been a rather unimaginative approach to such a unique find!
Moi Watson
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, Merlot in one hand, Cigar in the other; body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming "WOO HOO, what a ride! 
02-16-2011, 04:13 AM
Quote:"...archaeologists were unable to save the foor prints..." Plaster casts were taken, I seem to recall. I think they mean they couldn't leave them in situ (because of the development). They'd already moved the line of the road to avoid the 'fort'. Mike Bishop 
02-16-2011, 11:10 PM
Children, always getting into things... of course, these were wearing shoes:
![[Image: tegolone.jpg]](http://www.sanniti.info/sanimage/tegolone.jpg) Roof tile from Pietrabbondante, 1st c. BCE signed in Oscan and Latin: hn. sattieìs detfri seganatted. plavtad Herenneis Amica signavit. qando ponebamus. tegila Oscan: "Detfri, slave of Herennius Sattius, signed with her foot" Latin: "Amica, slave of Herennius, signed when we placed the tiles"
Dan Diffendale
Ph.D. candidate, University of Michigan 
02-26-2011, 02:06 AM
When I was a seasonal custodian working at Chesters Roman Fort on Hadrians' Wall there was in the commanders house some red brick tiles one of which had a vey small childs footprint on it.
I constantly mentioned that it should be removed and put into the museum however my warnings fell on deaf ears, then not so long ago I payed a visit to Chesters Fort where I found that this tile had been stolen and maybe now sold on how sad.
Brian Stobbs
03-18-2011, 02:41 AM
That's so cool. I love stories like this. I really like it when they find things like that. I love Roman grafitti too. I think it tells us a lot about ordinary people. It makes them more human and we can relate to them more.
MARCVS VELIVS AVITVS (Reid Neilsen)
LEGIO VII GEMINA FELIX "SI HOC LEGERE SCIS NIMIVM ERUDITIONIS HABES" http://www.whitemountainforge.com 
04-08-2011, 09:14 PM
Did I miss something, how do they know it was from the Roman period?
Quintus Furius Collatinus
-Matt
04-09-2011, 12:36 AM
Quote:Did I miss something, how do they know it was from the Roman period? The Law of Superposition (aka stratigraphy). Mike Bishop |
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