The Roman road runs through the landscape – Scott country – over the modern border between England and Scotland, towards the Eildon Hills and the outpost of Trimontium (on the skyline to the left – click on image to enlarge). Not so bleak on such an August afternoon. Site of the Reidswire Fray – July…
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on the trail of the Etruscans
Florence – the archaeological museum (in quite a sorry and neglected state) As my book with Gary (Devore) for Oxford University Press comes close to completion.
archaeological discovery – Binchester
There’s something so appealing about archaeological discovery: the excavations at Binchester (I am so missing being there this year) are turning up all sorts. Here’s David Petts reported in Culture24 – Archaeologists find baths of "sociable" Romans and early evidence of Christianity in Durham. (Much better than the article in the UK Daily Mail yesterday…
forty years on – restaging – return – nostos
I have just received the wonderful photo book of Mike Pearson’s new work – The Lesson of Anatomy 1974/2014. On 5 and 6 July 1974, the newly founded Cardiff Laboratory for Theatrical Research (later Cardiff Laboratory Theatre) presented The Lesson of Anatomy: The Life, Obsessions and Fantasies of Antonin Artaud in the Sherman Arena Theater,…
Northumbrian summer
Gary (Devore) sent me this picture from the outing to Housesteads Roman fort taken by the Binchester Field School on Sunday – the sheep clearly quite at in with the impending rainstorm. I am reminded of waiting for a train at Cambridge station some time ago, sleet driving horizontally up the platform. One ticket guard…
twelve years on
For twelve years and more I have been visiting a tree, every month or six weeks. And taking photographs – every one quite different. [Link] [Link] An apple tree in Anderson Valley in northern California, and a legacy of an old agricultural industry going back to the 1850s or 60s, now eclipsed by the grape….
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