Version romano-brythonique de ce qu on appellerait un relais de poste (usant le vocabularies 18eme siecle ici) mais d avant les diligences. Une dรฉcolletรฉ interest ante. #mutatio etait ce combine a une mansio militaire? N'oublions pas que les chevauchees meme en territoire pacifie, pacifique, amical ca fatigue! @GarciaDInrap @Archeonationale @museesgallo @DimitriTilloi @Lucius_Gellius
๐บ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ธ๐ด ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ฅ๐ผ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐, ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฑ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ถ๐ป๐, ๐ฎ ๐๐ฒ๐น๐น, ๐๐๐ผ ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐, ๐ฏ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ผ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฒ๐, ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐, ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฎ ๐ฅ๐ผ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ต๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ฒ-๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ๐ป๐ด๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป... ๐ These ar Roman delights from 87,000 sq. meters of excavation at the #A417's Area 22 and Area 23. Along the historic Ermin Way, the team have been exposing secrets held in the ground for nearly 2,000 years, and one is a #Roman 'mutatio' โ a transport caff for weary horses and riders.
Interestingly, this is the same site that previously gave us *that* Roman cupid figurine โ Cupid, with a club, posing as Hercules (proving love isn't always delivered with a 'friendly' bow and arrow... oxfordcotswoldarchaeology.org.uk/site/area-22-aโฆour latest discoveries from this #OCAarchTeam project, here: https://t.co/lDxY0a8YSe
@oatweet #Archaeology #Gloucestershire #CupidWithAClub
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