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Tag Archives: excavation
sun is shining
Two opposed cuts along a roman wall to get an impression of the basement — eight hours work at temperatures as high as 30°C. On the second picture you can see two correspondent walls — at first sight. But doing a cut … Continue reading
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ancient rubbish
Here you can see many huge and foremost complete roman bricks. Usually we get lots of fragments in construction waste pits — romans didn’t waste complete or reusable material. So maybe we see here the remains of a former portico, the … Continue reading
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Tagged adobe, archaeology, brick, excavation, history, humanities, roman
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ancient remains
What we see here are the remains of a roman latrine, the original wall of a roman basement, leftovers of a hypocaustum and last not least the hint of a wall together with some huge fragment of mortar. What you don’t see: lots of … Continue reading
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paw of a dog
There you can see the fragment of a roman brick, nothing special but usually we’re looking for some seal1. But in that case we’ve found the mark of a paw. Some dog couldn’t resist to walk over the recent brick about 100 A.D. … Continue reading
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addendum
Those are the missing picturs to raiders of the lost wall — click on the pictures for higher resolution. Enjoy :-)
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raiders of the lost wall
Nothing much to say about the past week: we did some cuts to follow a former building phase, en detail this means we’ve moved a lot of mud, found less to none relevant to date the building phases1, but in the end … Continue reading
long weekend
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Lego Archaeology
Hey look at those pictures, this guy renders some essential parts of an excavation with Lego. See e.g. the profile … :-)
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frustration
Today: preparing some post holes1 on a playing field. Why? There is a huge roman graveyard beneath the field, so it’s possible to disturb some tombs while working with a digger and its giant blade. Well, we didn’t find anything, apart from lots … Continue reading
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the buddy lies deeper
Or if you do a cut you have to go deeper to get a comprehensive profile. How much? ‘Til the beginning of the basement :-) Most of the time we’re doing cuts to get an impression concerning the different build phases, usually … Continue reading
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