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Ancient and Medieval History / Re: Significant Anglo-Saxon Cemetery And Settlement Found In Overstone, Northampton
« Last post by Jim Webster on January 27, 2021, 05:07:01 PM »
Quote from: Mick Hession on January 27, 2021, 05:00:03 PM
Quote from: Jim Webster on January 27, 2021, 03:04:20 PM
In three thousand years somebody will doubtless try and prove that actually Americans weren't settled from the UK because their attitudes to burial rites differ so much  8)

To be fair, many Americans weren't settled from the UK (even counting C19th Irish as being of UK origin).

cheers
Mick

Those of European origin, whether direct or indirectly also come from a culture which doesn't have a problem with building on burial grounds. It's just fascinating to watch cultures diverge
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Ancient and Medieval History / Re: Significant Anglo-Saxon Cemetery And Settlement Found In Overstone, Northampton
« Last post by Mick Hession on January 27, 2021, 05:00:03 PM »
Quote from: Jim Webster on January 27, 2021, 03:04:20 PM
In three thousand years somebody will doubtless try and prove that actually Americans weren't settled from the UK because their attitudes to burial rites differ so much  8)

To be fair, many Americans weren't settled from the UK (even counting C19th Irish as being of UK origin).

cheers
Mick
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Army Research / Re: Helmets -Marian / Late Republic Roman Legionaries, and EIR Auxilia
« Last post by Martin Smith on January 27, 2021, 04:31:11 PM »
Thanks Duncan - appreciated. I’ll pass that on.
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Ancient and Medieval History / Re: Significant Anglo-Saxon Cemetery And Settlement Found In Overstone, Northampton
« Last post by Jim Webster on January 27, 2021, 03:04:20 PM »
Quote from: Justin Swanton on January 27, 2021, 11:19:41 AM
Quote from: Jim Webster on January 27, 2021, 08:02:46 AM
Quote from: Holly on January 26, 2021, 07:48:06 PM
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/01/significant-anglo-saxon-cemetery-and.html#.YBA7YD0QJc4

its a big dig...

I confess I always smile wryly when Americans worry about building on ancient burial grounds    ???

Mmmh...that's a big dig at the Americans (and they don't want one  ::) )

Just musing aloud.
Given that they technically share much the same culture and in theory at least the same religion, I find the divergence interesting.
Yet in the Ancient world we're surprised that Greeks living a couple of thousand miles from Greece evolve differently, in an era when the journey could take weeks evolve differently yet in a world with instant communication we see how far Americans and English differ in what are culturally very basic things. In three thousand years somebody will doubtless try and prove that actually Americans weren't settled from the UK because their attitudes to burial rites differ so much  8)
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Army Research / Re: Helmets -Marian / Late Republic Roman Legionaries, and EIR Auxilia
« Last post by Duncan Head on January 27, 2021, 12:42:07 PM »
Late Republican helmets were mostly bronze Montefortino and Coolus types, with some iron Gallic styles (the Agen-Port styles) being adopted from Caesar's day onwards.

Imperial legionaries might wear iron or bronze. Auxiliaries are a lot less certain, but also probably both, with maybe bronze being more common then in the legions.
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Ancient and Medieval History / Re: 80 DUGOUTS OFFER GLIMPSE INTO 9TH CENTURY RURAL LIFE IN FIRST BULGARIAN EMPIRE
« Last post by Erpingham on January 27, 2021, 12:35:24 PM »
He also had a daredevil streak.  Under the guise of researching what it was like to experience anti-aircraft fire, he blagged a seat in a Wellington bomber on a raid on an Italian air field.  To get a better view , he sat in the front turret.  The air defences were a disappointment though so the bomber crew decided to beat up the airfield, Wheeler blazing away with the turret guns.  Indiana Jones eat your heart out.
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Ancient and Medieval History / Re: 80 DUGOUTS OFFER GLIMPSE INTO 9TH CENTURY RURAL LIFE IN FIRST BULGARIAN EMPIRE
« Last post by DBS on January 27, 2021, 11:43:35 AM »
Quote from: Erpingham on January 27, 2021, 08:47:25 AM
The excavation seems to have been done with Wheeler boxes - very Old School.
Thread drift I realise, but one quaint aspect of Wheeler's career is that during WW2, when he was a TA anti-aircraft regiment CO, his standardised design for AA machine-gun pits was based on Celtic roundhouses...
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Ancient and Medieval History / Re: Significant Anglo-Saxon Cemetery And Settlement Found In Overstone, Northampton
« Last post by Justin Swanton on January 27, 2021, 11:19:41 AM »
Quote from: Jim Webster on January 27, 2021, 08:02:46 AM
Quote from: Holly on January 26, 2021, 07:48:06 PM
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/01/significant-anglo-saxon-cemetery-and.html#.YBA7YD0QJc4

its a big dig...

I confess I always smile wryly when Americans worry about building on ancient burial grounds    ???

Mmmh...that's a big dig at the Americans (and they don't want one  ::) )
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Army Research / Helmets -Marian / Late Republic Roman Legionaries, and EIR Auxilia
« Last post by Martin Smith on January 27, 2021, 11:03:06 AM »
Little debate ongoing on another forum...

Was the late Republican Roman helmet bronze?

And early Empire, 1st century AD, were auxilia in bronze helmets, legionaries in steel?

That’s what I gleaned from AEIR, but wondered if it had been changed through more recent research.
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Ancient and Medieval History / Re: 80 DUGOUTS OFFER GLIMPSE INTO 9TH CENTURY RURAL LIFE IN FIRST BULGARIAN EMPIRE
« Last post by Erpingham on January 27, 2021, 08:47:25 AM »
The excavation seems to have been done with Wheeler boxes - very Old School.
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