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posted by Fnord666 on Monday December 26 2016, @03:44AM   Printer-friendly
from the that-was-one-busy-cobbler dept.

1,800 years ago the Roman army built one of its smallest but most heavily defended forts at the site of Vindolanda, which is now a part of the Frontiers of The Roman Empire World Heritage Site.

The small garrison of a few hundred soldiers and their families took shelter behind a series of large ditches and ramparts, while outside the walls a war was raging between the northern British Tribes and Roman forces.

Once the war was over (c AD 212) the troops and their dependants pulled out of the fort, and anything that they could not carry with them on the march was tossed into the defensive ditches. The rubbish in the ditches was then quickly sealed when a new Roman town and fort was built at the site, preserving the rubbish in an oxygen free environment where the normal ravages of time, rust and decay, crawled to a halt.

In 2016, the Vindolanda archaeologists excavated the ditch and discovered an incredible time capsule of life and conflict, and amongst the debris were dog and cat skeletons, pottery, leather and 421 Roman shoes. Visitors who were lucky enough to come to Vindolanda this summer watched in amazement as shoe after shoe was found in the ditch, each one a window into the life of type of person who might have once worn it. Baby boots, small children's shoes, teenagers, ladies and men's boots, bath clogs, both indoor and outdoor shoes.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 26 2016, @05:06AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 26 2016, @05:06AM (#445970)

    I prefer the marching morons. Shut the fuck up, scro, I'm bating!

  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday December 26 2016, @06:34AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday December 26 2016, @06:34AM (#445986) Journal

    Those morons would march right up your ass though. And, WTF is "scro"? You meant to sign your name, "Scrotum"?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 26 2016, @07:24AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 26 2016, @07:24AM (#445993)

      The cult film Idiocracy is set 500 years in the future when scro has become slang for bro. Idiocracy is loosely based on a short story called The Marching Morons in which a curmudgeon like yourself wakes up in the far future and appoints himself Hitler.

    • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 26 2016, @10:07AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 26 2016, @10:07AM (#446024)

      Runaway1965 has no scrots. We are all sorry for him. I hope he can grow a pair, as soon as he gets off the Brawando. It has electrolyles! No scrots, not brains, I aways say! What a tard! An Arkansatard! Oh, Ha! Ha, ha ha ha ha!!! Owwhee, boy he is such a tard! OMG, that has has to hurt! Runaway1955 is such an idiot! And, he knows nothingl Oh, plus, he is stupid, dumb as a bag of hammers, son!!! My God, if only they grew Yankees to be so stupid, the South might have won the war! But again, maybe that is why: southerners are just not smart enough to rule themselves, let alone to rule the darkies they claim to be superior to! I say, let the African-Americans take over all the middle management jobs in the South, for, oh, five years. And then we might see some fun. Like Runaway getting his anchor baby ass fired. And about time.