Roman Vindolanda Tour 3 - "The Unknown Fort." Explore It Yourself w "Medieval Engineers"
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- The third of my series of videos exploring the simulation of Vindolanda's 3rd-Century Roman fort and town/vicus. This video will take you through the southern range of the fort, the least known part, where excavation is happening right now. A combination of known & conjecture have helped to shape this part of the fort. Whether you're a gamer or academic or just interested in history, please stop in and explore.
Built using "Medieval Engineers." If you have the software, just follow this link: steamcommunity.... or search on Steam for "Vindolanda" and download the world!
Please see the full amazing flyover video by Andrew Wood, filmed June 2015, here: • Vindolanda Roman Fort ...
For more info on the current digs, please see Vindolanda's excavation blog: www.vindolanda.... and Western University's Dept of Classical Studies blog: westernclassic....
The highland flowers growing everywhere give it a nice, quaint sense of normal life going on there, not just harsh military life. They're the right colors for the area, good attention to detail there. The amount of infrastructure this little village has is amazing, it must have been strategically important enough to have its own city government and a steady flow of cash from the imperial coffers coming in.
Good point on needing more space between the horse blocks - I also wonder if there had to be room for manure piles too - 4 horses can produce a lot and I am sure that the manure was not taken out of the fort every day
If I get a chance to go overseas for a vacation, guess where I'm headed?
Thanks for the recreation.
On the odd gates that don't work well - it seems that the set plan for first was so ingrained that the were built even when they were impossible - at Hardknott pass one gates opens onto the cliff face as does one at Hoursteads
It's entertain and informative! Can't wait for the next part. Kind of put's my little minion village to shame ;) Is the real life fort dig open to visitors at all do you know? I'd love to head down there for a day trip some time and see (what's left) of this place for real.
Weird Wizard Dave Thanks so much for the posts! And I love your village & vids -- they've taught me a lot. I've been blown away by what ME is able to do. It's something I've been trying to find for years now. I'm psyched that it's out. I just hope it takes off & really gets popular. Yeah, the fort is open 7 days a week. There are archaeologists & volunteer diggers on-site most days during the summer months. You can get up pretty close to where the digs are happening, ask questions, see what's being found. It's a brilliant place.
Been there drunk 🥴 the Coffee ☕️ wore the T Shirt 👕😂
The open drill space may all have been a horse training centre - these did not have to be large
Hi Robert. Thanks much for all the great comments & ideas. I actually want to update these videos with my new technology and the game's new tech. Hopefully they'll be smoother & less choppy. But I'm glad you enjoyed them as they are. That's a very good point about the horse training area, and it does make sense. It's also possible that open spaces like that could have stored manure piles I'm guessing. There's some evidence that they did have a system for carting out the manure & straw regularly -- probably dumping them in a midden. But the details are all up in the air. And that's also funny about Hardknott -- I've seen the Housesteads and other Wall gates that open right onto a cliff face. I think you're right -- Roman bureaucracy getting in the way of common sense.