How I found a Roman Villa (or temple)
A talk from EMF 2024 by Jo Skerry
On Friday May 31, 2024 at – in Stage A
The Roman archaeological record is far from complete; There are hundreds of high status Roman buildings yet to be located in Britain.
I was volunteering in the ambulance service during COVID when I was given a piece of Roman pottery by a patient. With no training (I later embarked on an Archaeology degree ), I started to carefully investigate and record what is now established as an enigmatic high-status Roman building - complete with mosaic, painted wall plaster and hypocaust.
My talk will demonstrate some free Web-based tools that you can use to investigate your local landscape (LiDAR, etc.). It will also show you non-invasive ways to survey and record archaeological sites. Finally, I'll have some Roman artefacts to handle.
Video
- View this video on media.ccc.de.
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