Two Rare Roman Burial Pots Discovered in Cornwall

Two Roman burial urns have been found on the grounds of a retirement village being built in Tregony, Cornwall, in the south of England, according to a report from the BBC.

The 1st century AD pottery urns were found by a Cornwall County Council archaeologist in a pre-construction check at the Roseland Parc development. Experts believe the urns were recovered from a shrine that overlooked Fal River. They are to go on show at the Truro Museum after analysis.

While Roman burial urns are known from England, they are quite rare in the Cornwall area. Click here for the full article from the BBC including a photo.

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[Joe Geranio]

The Floating Palaces of Caligula and Artifacts at Lake Nemi- Joe Geranio

The History Channel had a wonderful program on a few months back on the large ships, barges, pleasure palaces or whatever you wish to call them. I will leave some great links on the Nemi Project and some arifacts. These ships were absoulutely enourmous and on one of the links you will see a man standing next ot one. The most intriguing artifact that I saw was a lead pipe from the ship that read CCAESARISAVGGERMANICI(US) Since I could not find a photo of the lead pipe I kept pausing the lead pipe on the show to make sure I had the inscription right. This is rare to find any inscriptions with Caligula's name (Gaius) except on coinage of course. The only other inscription I have seen is from a Wine barrel which reads Inscription from a wine barrel,
mentioning C[aligula] really Gaius Cae[sar]
Aug[ustus] Ger[manicus] In 40, the emperor Caligula visited Fectio when he was travelling to Lugdunum. The remains of a wine barrel from his personal vinyard have been found. For photo of wine barrel inscription go to: http://www.livius.org/a/1/germania/caius.jpg The inscription to me is a very important piece of archaeological evidence that links the ship. Here is a link to visit the artifacts from Caligula's floating palaces.

http://www.abc.se/~pa/mar/nemships.htm

I found it fascinating that the Romans had a turning table on the ship probably for a statue and the valves they used are just like the valves used for today.

Joe Geranio