In this post I talked briefly about finding the mid-twentieth century introduction Hygromia cinctella Draparnaud 1801 in Yeovil in Somerset. Back in May I was digging in Cambridgeshire, when I came across these (modern) shells of another introduction, Cernuella virgata Da Costa 1778:
C. virgata is a somewhat older resident than H. cinctella, it’s probably a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Roman’
A resident alien snail from Sawston, Cambridgeshire
Posted in ecology, shells, snails, tagged Cambridgeshire, introductions, Roman, snails, zooarchaeology on July 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Iruña-Veleia
Posted in photography, sites, tagged archaeology, photography, Roman, sites, Spain on September 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Iruña-Veleia, a Roman oppidum in Alava, northern Spain:
Reconstruction features very heavily in the presentation of the site, for example this mosaic over a water tank:
The finds from the site include what is claimed to be the oldest representation of the crucifixion of Christ and the oldest known writings in the Basque language*.
In Late Antiquity, the [...]
