Celebrating at Ryde High School are, from left, Emma Beak, Grace Hannington and Richard Shoulder
Posted on 08/25/2010 5:30:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The third phase of the Big Dig at Brading Roman Villa may well have been one of the toughest excavations eminent archaeologist Sir Barry Cunliffe had ever undertaken but it has yielded some treasures and a greater understanding of Brading's history up to its Roman occupation.
With the three-week dig ending [Friday], Sir Barry's team has unearthed, over the past two weeks, numerous pottery remains, ranging from pieces of amphorae to a tray for sifting sea water to extract salt.
The discovery of a second century BC saucepan became the earliest evidence of occupation on the site, pushing its history back as much as two centuries.
Examples of early jewellery were also found, which included an example of a small mid-first century AD brooch inlaid with enamel.
A butt beaker, a type of Gaulish pre-Roman period drinking vessel, bronze tweezers, a flagon and a cremation jar were also discovered.
During the first week of the dig, Sir Barry's team unearthed a rare cooking pot and a copper coin bearing the image of a goddess.
This year's dig concentrated principally on a site to the rear of the villa's car park.
There is, according to Sir Barry, strong evidence the villa was a high-status farmstead in the late Iron Age, trading with the Romans before the AD43 invasion of Britain.
"We've got reminders of Mediterranean manners and lifestyle before the Roman invasion and them being incorporated into community life," he explained. "It is likely salt was a product of this area. The farmstead may well date back to an earlier period of the Iron Age. The dig was unrelenting -- one of the toughest sites to dig any of us has ever seen.
"Yet it yielded a host of fascinating features and gave us a real understanding about the villa story."
(Excerpt) Read more at iwcp.co.uk ...
Celebrating at Ryde High School are, from left, Emma Beak, Grace Hannington and Richard Shoulder
The Big Dig 2010 at Brading Roman Villa. Picture by Robin Crossley.
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They had cars back then? Just...Dang!
A Gaulish Chieftain taunts his enemies
If it ignores the Bicameral Mind theory...it is premature and half baked!
Even Richard Dawkins is moved by the idea of the Bicameral Mind...and recent neuro-imaging techniques have confirmed it.
If you readers don't know of it...the time is right for you to dig!
“A butt beaker, a type of Gaulish pre-Roman period drinking vessel, bronze tweezers, a flagon and a cremation jar were also discovered.”
Kind of an early Swiss Army Knife gadget? Odd combination of things to be found in a butt breaker, inmho...
When did you become Free Republic's resident butt breaker expert?
The Romans were only about 500 years ahead of the rest of the world. They pretty much built the UK then got sick of the crappy weather and bad food.
I will take a nice pasta with a good tomato sauce over eels and potatoes any day.
Today, Brits with money are fleeing to Italy (Tuscany) to get away from the Islamic hell hole the Labour Party, political correctness and TV newsmedia created in the UK.
They found Beaker's butt?
“But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
I thought that was a long-nosed dog.
lol my moms favorite book.
LOL! So true. Some of the stuff the Romans were capabale of is just staggering.
2,000 years later - places like Detroit, Chicago, Camden NJ, Oakland and other cities are incapable of most of the things you listed.
Freaking Detroit is going to end of as vacant lot and it will be a huge improvement.
“...second century BC saucepan...”
It is obviously a Roman (Italian) settlement. Unless there is a good tomato sauce for the food then life is not worth living.
There was no tomato sauce before the New World but aside from that it is sad to see a once great super power go out with a whimper.
You should have seen Detroit before the riots and before the Democrats took over. It was known as the Paris of the Midwest. It was a beautiful city surrounded by beautiful sprawling neighborhoods with shopping districts and their own distinct character. Tree lined streets, beautiful homes. It’s a shame what’s become of that once great city. Its nothing but a cesspool now.
Alright then, I guess if someone is an expert in butt breakers at least antique but breakers are respectable. Carry on.
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