UK Trip Photo Book - 2019

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Vindolanda!

We spent a couple of weeks at Vindolanda, a Roman army fort just to the south of Hadrian's Wall.
 
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The remains of Vindolanda!

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The cafe and museum at Vindolanda.

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The museum is small, but it contains an impressive collection of artifacts from Vindolanda - such as this wooden practice sword.


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And these combs.

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The faculty stayed at Codley Gate Cottage.


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The students stayed at the Hedley Centre.

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They survived the two weeks under the watchful eyes of Pauline!


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The students became great friends!


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And had one adventure...


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...after another!


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Ian found the Roman Milestone on the ancient Stanegate Road near Codley Gate Cottage.


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The gang enjoyed the delicious food and beverages available at the pub up the road from Vindolanda.

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Especially the Sticky Toffee Pudding!!









We spent some of our free time hiking around the English countryside.

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A few of us made the climb up to the top of Barcombe Hill, just to the south of Vindolanda.


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We had an amazing view of Vindolanda from the top of the hill.

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And great views of the surrounding countryside.

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Everyone's favorite hike, however, was Hadrian's Wall.

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A view of the wall above Sycamore Gap.


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Milecastle 39 along the wall.

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The classic view of Sycamore Gap and the famous "Robin Hood" tree.


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Andy and the Sycamore.

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Crag Lough a bit further east along the wall from Sycamore Gap.


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Hiking victory!


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Some of the gang hiking the wall.

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Ain't afraid of some ancient wall!

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Resting for a bit during the long hike...


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...and a bit longer.

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The wind challenge!




Most of our time was spent excavating the various ditches on the northern side of the fort.  And it was awesome!  We made up about half of the excavation team during the two-week session from 3-14 June.  So we got to dig with people from all over the UK, and even as far away as New Zealand!

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A view of our excavation site from the west.

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The joys of digging!

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Troweling is art!

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Who doesn't love giant rocks?

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One square at a time...



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2:30 tea time was always welcome.

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Important finds allowed you to hold the staff of destiny!


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Such as Dave...

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...and his potsherd.

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And Alejandra...


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...and her lead weight.


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We didn't find as many writing tablets as we did during the 2017 trip.  Only one this time.


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But we found a bunch of Roman shoes.  Like this one!

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And this one.

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And this one.


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And this one.


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And this one.

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Our group picture with Marta, the site archaeologist.

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Jack made "friends" with Norman and Lynn!

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Our last two days were rained out.



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But site director Andrew Birley gave us nice farewell walk-through and discussion of what we had accomplished during our stay at Vindolanda.












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