Greenhead: Day 2

Tuesday, May 6th:


Today we took a trip to Vindolanda. Vindolanda is a Roman Fort built a mile from Hadrians Wall. Here, there were archeologists still digging, which was really cool to watch. We decided since the Fort was a mile from the actual Hadrians Wall, this was a family site. As a little side note, we found out that they actually celebrated birthdays, and women were educated, and we know this because they were writing letters that were actually discovered in the ground!A lot of the site is still underground. You can tell where stuff is underground because of the way the ground “flows”. It’s really bumpy where they have yet to dig.


We went to the museum, and we saw everything from written letters to chicken dinner remains. It’s so amazing how everything is preserved when it’s nearly 2000 years old. Who would have thought that someone would have been digging up remains from supper 2000 years later?! It’s so crazy because these people were so advanced in about everything. For example, they had “central heating”, and running water. These people were very technological advanced for their time considering we didn’t even think about this kind of thing for years later.


When we got back to Greenhead, we ended up going back to the Pub/Hotel/Restaurant and then back to the Youth Hostel. We went to bed early because we were due to wake for our site survey early the next morning.