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This thread is incredible and I don't know why I only started reading it recently. I'm through about 60 pages but skipped ahead to post. I work at Chedworth Roman Villa and have done for 7 years now. drat I'm old. It's the 150th anniversary of the discovery of the villa this year, which is all very exciting for us. And we're in between big building/excavation/conservation projects at the moment; we had one big cover building open for the first time in 2012 and we're in the planning/funding stage for the next one. All in all, it's a cool place to be, and I've learned a lot in my time there (not least from reading all the books in the shop). If anyone has any questions specifically about Chedworth, I'll do my best to answer them. And if you're UK-based, you should definitely come and look round.
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Sleep of Bronze posted:Haha, that's something. You can't be much more than half an hour from me when I'm at home. Will pop in some time during vac. Or of a weekend maybe: should make like my friends and go back home to help dig out flood defences anyway. How's the rain treating the site? We're surviving, not expecting a huge amount of visitors for the start of season this weekend which is a shame. Honestly just getting here in bad weather is more of an issue than taking care of the site. The road along the Coln valley (from either side) isn't far from flooding, but it should hold up. Never seen the water in the fields this high though. We had snow today for about an hour but it didn't settle, so access is still alright. We're high enough up the valley that the site itself isn't likely to flood, although a few years back one of the old buildings did spring a leak and we ended up with significant water in one of the baths for the first time in ~1600 years. Nothing that drastic so far this winter. But yeah, everything that would be damaged much by rain is covered up. We've got the new building over the West Range (Dining Room mosaic, West Bath house, corridor mosaic, hypocausts) and the old Victorian sheds over the key bits of the North Wing do enough to keep the weather out, as much as you'd expect for buildings nearing their 150th birthday. The hypocaust pillae in the North Wing have their winter socks on, as usual. Everything else is sturdy enough to not worry about too much. External walls are all capped, and a lot of exciting stuff is safely underground (until we get more money to make permanent excavation feasible). Cast_No_Shadow posted:Thats cool as gently caress. I'd also ask, isn't it now underwater? Or is it just coastal? There are some amazing properties in the North, but they are definitely more spread out than the South-West and South-East. I guess the region has always been less densely populated, so it sort of makes sense. I was up at Quarry Bank in Cheshire recently for some training, and it's probably now in my top 5 favourite Trust places I've been to. The standard "old country house" thing doesn't really do it for me, so anything the Trust does that's a bit different is a winner for me. Chedworth is at least 1000 years older than any other stately home we look after, so it definitely fits the bill. e: I've just read a question ages back about clothing in cold weather. Check out this dude:  He's the figure of Winter from our "Four Seasons" Dining Room mosaic, holding a hare and a bare branch. He's also wearing a nifty hooded cloak, or birrus britannicus. Mmm, snug! sebzilla fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Feb 13, 2014 |
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Feb 13, 2014 20:26
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. Either that or no one ever did anything significant up here.
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Imapanda posted:I'm still waiting for some republican Rome book reccomendations since the previous 2 suggestions were actually about the empire/verylate republic. I'm trying to remember what I've got in my shop, and off the top of my head most of it tends to be Empire stuff. Patricia Southern has one that's decent enough, from memory http://www.amazon.com/ANCIENT-ROME-VOL-REPUBLIC-753BC-30BC/dp/1445604272 I'll have a look tomorrow when I'm in and try to come up with more of a list. Been on holiday for a week and the shelves are fuzzy in my mind.
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Oct 13, 2014 14:32
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What about castrating boys to preserve their singing voices?
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Nov 1, 2014 22:30
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Hogge Wild posted:Greeks having asswiping stones and Americans using corn cobs was new to me. Where do the three seashells fit into all this?
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Jan 1, 2015 22:50
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JaucheCharly posted:How would a roman upperclass man train the mind? Debate? Trigonometry? Rap battles in Greek
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Jan 23, 2015 18:28
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Oberleutnant posted:last winter we had an (admittedly minor) fire break out during our biannual disaster planning meeting and the castle management and trustees are still dismissive of the costs of disaster management and the risks of fire or flood to begin with. Be honest, did you set the fire in an attempt to make them see sense? If so, it's clear next time you need to go bigger.
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Feb 2, 2015 00:41
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Benny the Snake posted:What would an ancient olympian wear to train in before the games? Say he was training for a footrace. Jorts
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Feb 5, 2015 02:45
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Bardo Museum in Tunis has the best mosaics I've ever seen. Been in the news a bit lately, for all the wrong reasons. Actually, any word on damage to the museum? Obviously it pales into insignificance compared to the loss of life, but still, it would be a huge shame.
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Mar 27, 2015 00:48
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Oh also come to Chedworth, it's pretty cool and you can ask me about stairs or whatever. Also not too far from Bath, Stonehenge, Avebury and lots of other neat stuff.
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Mar 27, 2015 01:26
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JaucheCharly posted:Imagine somebody printed out your browser history. "Well, it seems like people in the 21st century were just as obsessed by porn and toilet humour as people in every other human era. Futhermore *faaaaaart*" - Professor Zargax's lecture series on Human History and poop jokes, Oxford University, 6015
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May 1, 2015 19:33
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FreudianSlippers posted:Crash Course History is the far superior YouTube history thingamajig. Agreed, Crash Course owns. Unless you're the Mongols.
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Jun 27, 2015 14:25
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Sulla-Marius 88 posted:Lastly, has anybody got any good articles or books on mining in the ancient world? I know the silver mines in Spain were absolutely brutal but I'd love to read more on the general metallurgical process for iron as well - mining (logistics and the physical extraction), transport, refinement, etc etc. http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Roman-Iron-Industry-Britain/dp/0752468650
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Jun 29, 2015 21:43
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I'm planning on sprucing up the shop I run at a well-known Roman Villa, and would quite like a Latin phrase (and translation) somehow related to it to paint onto a small section of wall. Something to do with spending money, or charitable giving, or similar. "Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo" is probably not a suitable candidate, even as a threat to non-buying customers. Any suggestions would be gratefully received, though!
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Jul 4, 2015 13:45
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Blessed are the cheesemakers.
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Jul 9, 2015 19:32
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All the human sacrifice paid off.
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Aug 10, 2015 20:57
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Arglebargle III posted:You know every single one of your ancestors had sex? Gross right? Pretty sure some of my ancestors reproduced asexually bro.
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Sep 15, 2015 00:11
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Tomn posted:Basileus Basil Brutally Buggers Bummed Bulgars By Boosting Burgeoning (But Bloated) Byzantine Bureaucracy. Blimey
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Sep 27, 2015 14:11
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A Strange Aeon posted:Is there a single volume of the Norse myths that covers all the stories? Is that what the poetic Edda is? Or is that something else? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Myths-Norsemen-Puffin-Classics-Lancelyn/dp/0140367381 For kids, but it's the book that got me hooked on the Vikings.
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Oct 23, 2015 08:35
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Obviously it's Quinctillius Varus having fled the continent in shame after Teutoburg. "give me back my legions" said Augustus, "nah bro I'm off to discover America, hope I don't drop my sword!" A true fact that happened. The evidence is right there!
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Dec 18, 2015 00:09
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P-Mack posted:9,700 BC, once you correct for the phantom time hypothesis. Phantom time is great, one of my favourite conspiracy theories for sure.
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Dec 24, 2015 15:54
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There was one wacky guy who reckoned that kids would learn better if they had a love of the subject instilled in them by their tutors, rather than just being beaten until they got it right. He taught the emperor's kids I think but it didn't really catch on.
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Jan 21, 2016 18:48
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Phobophilia posted:Why was the genocide performed by English settlers successful, and that performed by Spanish ones not? Lack of a good Protestant work ethic, presumably.
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Mar 11, 2016 10:57
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James Purefoy's Antony is phenomenal and he also hangs dong a couple of times so basically he's the definitive version for me.
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May 12, 2016 06:53
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What domestic item did Þórir explode and claim that it was totally a giant in disguise you guys stop complaining I break all your stuff.
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Oct 2, 2016 08:53
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Patter Song posted:I remember a few years ago this thread did a discussion about what early inventions could actually benefit the Romans with the infrastructure they had, and the list was surprisingly small. My favorite bit was someone coming up with bicycles, everyone thinking that was brilliant and would be a huge benefit for the Romans while easy to incorporate into their society...and then someone mentioned that the tires would need rubber. Back to the drawing board. The compass and other navigational advances? Printing press? Lenses/optics? A less lovely system of numerals? Stirrups? Basically anything involving electricity? Potatoes?
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Jan 5, 2017 12:38
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Magnets.
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Jan 5, 2017 16:10
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Roman printing press would mean a greater likelihood of a copy of Lives of Famous Whores surviving so it's the best choice.
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Jan 5, 2017 16:36
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I still have never gotten a specific answer from any thread regulars about what exact year they stop considering the Roman Empire the Roman Empire, despite the fact that even with this modern de-emphasis on dates, people, and places, everyone is ready to trot out 476 like it means anything. 1453 Or maybe 1922
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Feb 27, 2017 11:41
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It would be no more or less useful or meaningful than the shift from BC/AD to BCE/CE that happened on the sly sometime a while back. Awkward for a while, eventually it'd just be the new norm. Meh. And as Slothful Cobra said, not exactly the most accurate start point (even less so than old JC's birthday)
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Feb 27, 2017 15:56
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WoodrowSkillson posted:the BCE stuff has not even truly caught on for most people, and shifting the day you were born, along with all of the pop culture references to things like "the 50s" would create a ton more resistance The 50s would still be the 50s, just the 11950s instead of the 1950s. And birthdays etc would also still be the same, except with an extra digit. Really the whole thing is pretty meaningless.
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Feb 27, 2017 16:32
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I'm ok with all of that as long as we cut out the ~300 years of *phantom time*  
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Feb 27, 2017 17:03
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WoodrowSkillson posted:literally every tunic had short sleeves, making them longer was not wizardry. This guy disagrees 
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Mar 24, 2017 20:13
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MisterDuck posted:Didn't someone in this thread way back make a bunch of Roman dishes with pictures and such as well as how they tasted? I have a Roman Cookery book but have never cooked anything from it. If I ever get around to I'll definitely be sharing pictures and opinions.
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Apr 16, 2017 10:13
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Grevling posted:It's KYKLOPS not saiclops ugh Si-slops
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May 15, 2017 19:34
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They also prevent things like susanalbumparty
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Jun 11, 2017 22:03
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SlothfulCobra posted:All these depictions of Charlemagne being from after he's dead is just more and more evidence for the phantom time hypothesis. The best conspiracy theory. 
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Jul 17, 2017 10:43
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Sid Meier is the sole arbiter on what does and does not constitute a civilization. Vikings? Definitely. Sioux? Sure. Australian? Why not! Harappans, Olmecs, Minoans? gently caress off.
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Aug 9, 2017 13:17
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They're good at football and enjoy using Xs and Zs a lot.
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Groda posted:Are there any examples of pretenders to the throne successfully seizing and holding power in European history? There was this thing that went down in 1066 but you might not have heard of it.
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