Lorica segmentata

[clivethecelt]

Ah, but he knows the two secrets of success:
1. Don't tell everyone everything you know.
2.

[Centurion Dan]

Until someone invents a time machine, I guess we'll never know the reasons why............

[Augustus_Gaius]

Until someone invents a time machine, I guess we'll never know the reasons why............

If that day comes, Archaeologists will be out of a job i.e. what i'm going to be doing a degree in next year that would be a waste of 27k (albeit awesome)

[Centurion Dan]

Until someone invents a time machine, I guess we'll never know the reasons why............

If that day comes, Archaeologists will be out of a job i.e. what i'm going to be doing a degree in next year that would be a waste of 27k (albeit awesome)

There must an immense feeling of satisfaction when you dig something out of the ground and handle it for the first time in centuries. I wish I had done archeology at college

[Augustus_Gaius]

Indeed! did a mini trench once in my grandmothers garden and found some 14th century jettons! felt awesome ( was only a very small one because she had found one on her allotment) hopefully I'll get Caerleon this year, and wont have something come up like i did last year, one of the other diggers found a clasp believed to have been from the segmentata!

However my favourite finds from Caerleon are the gems that where found in the drain of the bathhouse, you can almost imagine the person going in with there favourite ring on and coming out with the gem on it missing!

[Invisible officer]

So you don't know then.

LOL Cubbin my man!

I can see it now ***breaking news*** - the world is in shock! IO doesn't know everything!
Maybe that needs printing and framing!

Sorry Invisible.....couldn't resist what you do know is remarkable.

I(O) know that I do not know everything. So I'm still curious.

Jettons, not bad. Finding something is great. The largest thing I found was 3/4 of a castle (destroyed pre 1100) in Oberfranken, deep in a wood. I found the signs of the outworks of that castle in the dense wood on the day of my first visit there. Nobody noticed before that the visible part was just the core.

None of the great findings of course, no tourists, nothing to be seen on the surface. No TV