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Washing up the Romans' plates
PETER FROST has been helping on a Roman dig near his Northamptonshire home, while nearby one of the area's biggest Roman settlements sees the light of day after 2,000 years
The head of a Roman statue found at Chipping Warden
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IT’S a very peculiar feeling. There we were, my wife Ann and I washing up — well actually much more delicately cleaning — bits of broken plates. Not just any plates, mind you. These shards were parts of plates Roman soldiers had eaten their supper off 2,000 years before.
Ann and I were helping out on an archaeological dig near our home. We had volunteered and were given the job of cleaning the finds from one of the many Roman villas and other sites in these parts.
Neither of us are trained archaeologists, but Ann often reminds me of Agatha Christie’s advice to women of a certain age. “Marry an archaeologist” said Christie. “They are the only men who get more interested in you as you get older.”
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